Promissio: The Reformational Turn in Luther’s Theology
About this ebook
Bayer shows how Luther comes to see that the promise requires a reshaping of the sacrament of penance (confession and absolution), as well as Baptism and the Lord's Supper. Luther's new understanding of promise also leads him to radically rethink his understanding of Christology, the sermon, meditation, and prayer.
When this book was first published in 1971 it was hailed by the Roman Catholic scholar Otto Hermann Pesch as a "classic of Luther research," and that claim still holds good today. No serious Luther scholar can afford to ignore it. It has also remained the foundation of all Oswald Bayer's subsequent work. The Lutheran Quarterly Books edition of Promissio now offers scholars and students this wisdom in English, thanks to Jeffrey Silcock's careful translation.
About the author
Oswald Bayer is professor emeritus of systematic theology at the University of Tübingen. He is a renowned Luther and Hamann scholar and the author of numerous books and articles, most recently Vernunft und Vertrauen, a basic orientation to Lutheran theology (2022).
Jeffrey Silcock is lecturer emeritus of systematic theology at Australian Lutheran College, University of Divinity, Adelaide. He has translated many Bayer articles and is the lead translator of his Theology the Lutheran Way (2007).
