25. Martin Luther: Roman Catholic Prophet, by Gregory Sobolewski. ISBN 0-87462-649-8. ©2001. Paperbound. Index. Bibliography. 187 pp. $20
“This work is an indispensable ecumenical resource. While the focus is the official, magisterial evaluations of Luther, the author begins with an introduction highlighting the popular images of Luther and the Reformation in the Catholic press and popular literature in the U.S.A. and its shifts in the twentieth century. In Sobolweski’s judgment, the sixteenth-century Roman magisterium was unable to evaluate Luther’s doctrine of justification positively, not primarily because of its content but because of the ecclesiological differences. This is precisely a difference that will make magisterial appreciation of Luther important today.” —Jeffrey Gros, F.S.C., Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, DC, from his review in the Journal of Ecumenical Studies
Dr. Greg Sobolewski is Professor of Theology at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. He has also taught in the university's Institute of Pastoral Ministries since 1994 and became the institute's director in 1996. Prof. Sobolewski was an invited participant in the U. S. bishops’ national consultations on Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord (2005), as well as a contributing writer for the “Proposed Foundational Document on Lay Ecclesial Ministry” that informed this document. He served two terms as Chair of the Theology Department at Saint Mary's (1994-1997, 2000-2003) and was a Director of Religious Education in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin (1979-81).
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