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Grace and Reason: A Study in the Theology of Luther is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this volume, author B. A. Gerrish examines Luther’s thoughts on human reason—reason before the Fall, reason after the Fall, and reason as it operates in a believer, the concept of ratio, and much more. Gerrish’s thorough exploration sheds light on Luther’s position regarding both the importance and limitations of human reason.

claims to be a comprehensive discussion of the place of reason in Luther’s theology. After the present writer had already completed his manuscript, he received a copy of Bernhard Lohse’s admirable work, Ratio und Fides. Eine Untersuchung über die ratio in der Theologie Luthers (Göttingen, 1958), the most comprehensive and satisfactory treatment of the problem that has yet appeared. Had this study been available to me during my own research, I would certainly have made extensive use of it: in revising
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