Mickey Leland Mattox Books

Focusing on Martin Luther's interpretation of female biblical figures from Genesis, the work highlights how he adapted premodern Catholic views to fit Protestant ideals. Luther reframes these women as heroic exemplars of piety within the constraints he believed were divinely imposed on their gender. The analysis includes detailed evaluations of Eve and the dynamics between men and women, followed by explorations of Sarah, Hagar, Rachel, Lot's family, and Potiphar's wife, showcasing their everyday sanctity and influence on Christian domestic life.

Sharp controversies -- about biblical authority, the ordination of women, evangelical "worship styles," and the struggle for homosexual "inclusion" -- have rocked the Lutheran church in recent decades. In Changing Churches two men who once communed at the same Lutheran Eucharistic table explain their similar but different decisions to leave the Lutheran faith tradition -- one for Orthodoxy, the other for Roman Catholicism. Here Mickey L. Mattox and A. G. Roeber address the most difficult questions Protestants face when considering such a conversion, including views on justification, grace, divinization, the church and its authority, women and ministry, papal infallibility, the role of Mary, and homosexuality. They also discuss the long-standing ecumenical division between Rome and the Orthodox patriarchates, acknowledging the difficult issues that still confront those traditions from within and divide them from one another.

A presentation of the pivotal 1519 debate between Martin Luther and John Eck in its historical and theological context, showing its significance for the subsequent course of the Reformation.