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Non-Competitive Agency and Luther's Experiential Argument Against Virtue: Non-Competitive Agency (2018)
Journal Article
Zahl, S. (2019). Non-Competitive Agency and Luther's Experiential Argument Against Virtue: Non-Competitive Agency. Modern Theology, 35(2), 199-222. https://doi.org/10.1111/moth.12410

This article examines a critique that has been levied against Martin Luther’s account of the passivity of the human agent in salvation, and his corresponding critique of Aristotelian and Scholastic accounts of virtue. According to Reinhard Hütter and... Read More about Non-Competitive Agency and Luther's Experiential Argument Against Virtue: Non-Competitive Agency.

Revisiting ‘the nature of Protestantism’: justification by faith five hundred years on (2017)
Journal Article
Zahl, S. (2018). Revisiting ‘the nature of Protestantism’: justification by faith five hundred years on. New Blackfriars, 99(1080), https://doi.org/10.1111/nbfr.12347

This essay is about the state of the doctrine of justification by faith alone today in light of recent critiques, and about the ways in which the doctrine continues to shape Protestants who no longer formally subscribe to it. The argument is first an... Read More about Revisiting ‘the nature of Protestantism’: justification by faith five hundred years on.

The bondage of the affections: willing, feeling, and desiring in Luther's theology, 1513-1525 (2016)
Book Chapter
Zahl, S. (2016). The bondage of the affections: willing, feeling, and desiring in Luther's theology, 1513-1525. In D. Coulter, & A. Yong (Eds.), The spirit, the affections, and the Christian tradition. University of Notre Dame

This essay examines the place of affectivity and emotion in Martin Luther's early theology 1513-25. After a critical discussion of the terminological complexities involved in analysing affectivity and the related category of desire in Luther's Latin... Read More about The bondage of the affections: willing, feeling, and desiring in Luther's theology, 1513-1525.