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The Theologia Germanica of Martin Luther is unavailable, but you can change that!

Written around 1350 by an anonymous author, this is a simple yet profound book about life in God as it translates into life in the world. This translation was based on Luther’s German edition of 1518.

For God feels more pain over man’s sin and it gives Him more grief than His own torture and death.159 Now, if one person’s sin causes God pain, how much more, then, the sins of all men? So you see how deeply man grieves God with his sins. Where God is man or in a divinized person one does not grieve over anything but sin. Nothing else gives real pain. For all that is or occurs without sin, that is what God will have and be. Yet grief and sorrow over sin should and must remain in a divinized person
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