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This definitive analysis of the theology of Martin Luther surveys its development during the crises of Luther’s life, then offers a systematic survey by topics. Containing a wealth of quotations from less-known writings by Luther and written in a way that will interest both scholar and novice, Lohse’s magisterial volume is the first to evaluate Luther’s theology in both ways. Lohse’s historical...

own mark on the definition very early on. In his first lecture on the Psalms he writes: “No one arrives at a knowledge of the Godhead if he is not first brought low and has descended to a knowledge of himself. For there he also arrives at a knowledge of God.”24 Here the existential character of the knowledge of God is clearly expressed. In this fashion, Luther distances himself from attempts at broaching the question of the knowledge of God on the basis of reason alone. Luther’s 1532 definition of
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