no part of its basis before God. There is a strong sense of the complete and perfect nature of the salvation granted to the believer: “In place of the two-way medieval Catholic path of gradual cooperation between God and humanity that leads to salvation, there entered the new theme that God alone is effective.”2 If this is true, then grace cannot be a quality in the believer. Instead, grace “is nothing but God himself in his mercy, the grace of God, God giving himself in community with the sinner.”3