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Hans Joachim Iwand’s 1941 monograph, The Righteousness of Faith According to Luther, is an important contribution to contemporary appreciation of Luther’s theological significance. Although Iwand wrote his study three decades after the beginning of the Luther Renaissance, it nevertheless developed some of the central insights of Luther scholarship during that period. Two concepts—in particular,...

does not meet us as empty vessels; we are not a tabula rasa, but are filled with all kinds of religious notions and ideas that must first be dismantled in order to make room for a true understanding of God. All individual preconceptions and constructions about God must fall away, for the “creative” delusions of man reach even so far as into the Christian teaching and conception of God.15 Therefore, giving God justice always means both things: to deny justice to oneself so that in the process “the
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