largely a “change of taste,” as Karl Holl puts it.24 His primary concern in his conversion is not to find a merciful God through the remission of sins, but to receive from God a new “taste” and power to subdue his evil lust and to pursue heavenly things. There are several characteristic aspects of Luther’s conception of justification and sanctification: 1. Man is justified wholly for the sake of Christ. Christ has “merited” and prepared for him the