TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wright, William J
AU  - Wright,William J
TI  - Martin Luther`s Understanding of God`s Two Kingdoms:  A Response to the Challenge of Skepticism
SN  - 9780801038846
U1  - C52(N18) 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Michigan
PB  - Baker Book House
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; 1. Interpretations of Luther`s Idea of the Two Kingdoms during the Last Two Centuries    17
Mid-Nineteenth-Century Uses of Luther`s Concept of Two Kingdoms
Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Developments 
National Socialist Perversions and the Responses 
Relevant Recent Treatments of the Two-Kingdoms Idea
2. The Skeptical Challenge of the Early Italian Renaissance    45 
Early Italian Humanism and Skepticism 
Lorenzo Valla and Rhetorical Humanism 
Italian Humanism and Neoplatonism 
Critics of Neoplatonism
3. Northern Humanism: The Context of Luther`s Two Kingdoms    79 
The Rhetorical Path and Valla`s Influence 
The Neoplatonic Path and the Influence of Ficino and Pico 
Luther and Humanism 
Earlier Twofold Conceptions
4. The Two-Kingdoms Worldview: How Luther Used the Concept in Diverse Contexts  113
The Early Use of the Two-Kingdoms Concept 
Further Refinement of the Two-Kingdoms Distinction in Biblical Commentaries
The Creation Law and the Three Divine Orders of Human Institutions
Theological Certainty versus Skepticism in the Worldly Kingdom 
5. The Reformer Applies the Two Kingdoms to Christian Life    147 
Luther`s Commentary on Ecclesiastes 
Christian Life as a Struggle for Faith 
Pitfalls and Patience 
Luther`s Social Ethos

ER  -