Dr. Mārtiņa Lutera missio Dei izpratnes avoti un raksturs viņa reformācijas programmas kontekstā

Long before reading and interpreting the Bible as professor in Wittenberg, Dr. Luther’s piety had been shaped by his own monastic experience as Augustinian friar. He had also come across medieval mystics and the mysticism of Theologia Germanica. Similar emphases could be found in diverse church renewal movements, select renown scholastic teachers, reformers who had come before him, the intellectual potency of 16th century humanists, several his contemporaries who shared his zeal and desire of a renewed Christendom (mostnotably Johannes Staupitz). Last but not least, Dr. Luther’s colleagues from the Wittenberg Circle – Philip Melanchthon, Justus Jonas, Johannes Bugenhagen, Caspar Cruciger, and Georg Major – each endowed with unique gifts, helped form Dr. Luther’s understanding of how the Church in Germany could be faithfully involved in the continuing drama of God’s mission to save the lost. Luther’s understanding of mission is strictly Trinitarian and should be understood against the background of his apocalyptic thinking.