Professor Emeritus of Dogmatics, Miikka Ruokanen has published the results of his studies on the Bondage of the Will in his monograph Trinitarian Grace in Martin Luther’s the Bondage of the Will. Ruokanen argues that despite extensive studies on this work, the kernel of Luther’s thought has hitherto been unrevealed.
Ruokanen’s main argument is that the Reformer’s
“specific and comprehensive understanding of the Trinitarian theology of grace, with special emphasis on Pneumatology, alonside with more obvious Christology, strongly linked with the theology of creation, is the fundamental thought structure of his magnum opus.”
Ruokanen sees his study as a Pneumatological and Trinitarian corrective to many earlier studies on Luther’s theology, including the ones carried out by Finnish scholars. At the same time it continues and amends the results on research done by Tuomo Mannermaa and others.
The study is published by Oxford University Press.