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Let God Be God!: An Interpretation of the Theology of Martin Luther is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

expression.18 In the De servo arbitrio, for example, his real intentions are not a little obscured because he adheres so closely to Erasmus’s statement of the issue. The impression can therefore be gained, even from some of his maturer works, that his position has not been fully thought out and is lacking in cohesion and consistency. Nevertheless, it is a false impression; and it indicates either a refusal or an inability to grapple with the complexities of his arguments. Luther has undoubtedly left
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