Let God Be God!: An Interpretation of the Theology of Martin Luther (Biblia.com)

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In this text Philip Watson asserts that similar to Copernicus’ challenge of the notion that the sun moved around the earth, Luther challenged the teaching that mortals were at the center and that everything moved around them. Instead, Luther claimed that God is the center, and without him, humanity is nothing. Human salvation lies not in things mortals do, but in what God does. The first part of...

and rebuild to a fresh plan; but the new building still stands on the same ground. So medieval theology and piety took it for granted, on the authority in particular of ancient philosophy, that religion is grounded in human need, and that human worthiness is the essential condition of attaining the religious goal. If, under the influence of the Scriptural tradition, the peril of human egocentricity in this conception was perceived, it was thought sufficient to refine and sublimate it, or to counterbalance

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