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020			_a9780800697327 (alk. paper)
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100	1		_aSchneider, Carolyn M., _d1963-
245	1	0	_aI am a Christian : _bthe nun, the Devil, and Martin Luther / _cCarolyn M. Schneider.
246	3	0	_aNun, the Devil, and Martin Luther
260			_aMinneapolis : _bFortress Press, _cc2010.
300			_avii, 184 p. ; _c24 cm.
490	1		_aStudies in Lutheran history and theology
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 167-174) and indexes.
520	8		_a"Inspired by a bold nun, on nearly twenty occasions over the course of his ministry Martin Luther invoked her way of warding off the devil and the temptation to despair. 'I am a Christian,' she would say to the Tempter, and Luther's admiration for her becomes an entre to the whole religious world of the middle ages and Luther's time. Schneider's fascinating journey goes in search, first, of the meaning that this story had for Luther and his theological world but then of the nun's identity and the whole role of the devil, guilt, sin, and temptation in the medieval worldview. Finally, Schneider turns to today and people's struggles with despair, sickness, addiction, and death. She shows the strange but undeniable pertinence of the whole idea of the devil, Christian community as a bulwark against evil, and how Luther's battles illumine our own. Schneider's work brightly models a historical theology that is as pastorally pertinent as it is historically engrossing" -- Publisher description.
600	1	0	_aLuther, Martin, _d1483-1546.
600	0	0	_aMechthild, _cof Magdeburg, _dapproximately 1212-approximately 1282.
600	0	0	_aMechthild, _cof Hackeborn, _d1241 or 1242-1299?
650		0	_aSpiritual warfare.
650		0	_aStruggle _xReligious aspects _xChristianity.
650		0	_aFaith.
650		0	_aChristian life.
830		0	_aStudies in Lutheran history and theology.
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