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The Genius of Luther’s Theology: A Wittenberg Way of Thinking for the Contemporary Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

While other volumes are available that introduce readers to the theology of Martin Luther, this volume from two eminent Lutheran professors offers a unique approach. Rather than surveying traditional theological subject headings, they focus on two central ideas that informed the basic conceptual framework of Wittenberg theology. The first presupposition concerns Luther’s anthropology. His...

forensic it is, the more effective it is!”42 For “the death inflicted by the justifying word which reduces us to nothing is the real death, the true spiritual death, the death of sin, the death of all defiance against the God who ‘will have mercy on whom he will have mercy’ [Rom. 9:15].” God’s Word “is the death knell of the old and the harbinger of the absolutely new.… The unconditional word, the promise, the declaration of justification is that which makes new, that which puts the old to rest and
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