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This title offers an introduction for students and lay readers to doing theology in the Lutheran tradition. Lutheran theology found its source, and so its name, in Martin Luther in the sixteenth century. The theology that emerged identified two essential matters for the relationship between humans and God, the law and the gospel. It made a simple but extremely unusual and controversial claim—that...

The second task of theology is to make way for the declaration of a completely foreign, new righteousness that has no law in it at all—“we must be taught a righteousness that comes completely from the outside and is foreign. And therefore our own righteousness that is born in us must first be plucked up.”2 God’s call to Jeremiah concluded, “to build and to plant” (Jeremiah 1:10:b). Luther concurred, “Everything that is in us” must be destroyed, and “everything that is outside us” must be planted
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