Martin Luther's Understanding of God's Two Kingdoms: A Response to the Challenge of Skepticism (Wright) Set Professor of Biblical and Religious

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Martin Luther's Understanding of God's Two Kingdoms: A Response to the Challenge of Skepticism (Wright) Set Professor of Biblical and ReligiousThe concept of God's two kingdoms was foundational to Luther and subsequent Lutheran theology. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, that concept has been understood primarily as a political concept. But is a political reading of the two kingdoms a perversion of Luther's teaching? Leading Reformation scholar William Wright contends that those who read Luther politically and see in Luther a compartmentalized approach to Christian life are