pathos. But he did it nonetheless, and this makes him a fascinating case study in self-reflection on the Christian life. In the eight chapters that follow, I offer an account of Luther’s understanding of the Christian life that takes as its cue the fact that he himself lived a dramatic Christian life. Too often theologians are treated as if they were simply abstract collections of ideas. Luther was a man of real flesh and blood; he was a son, a priest, a pastor, a preacher, a politician, a controversialist,