example, which provokes his most outrageous verbal violence. This was preferable to physical coercion, though of course it could also trigger the latter. Our language reflects also our concept of God. Argula von Grumbach, for example, like so many of the Reformers, read Scripture as witnessing to a tempestuous, caring but also chastising God, a God of conflict and not of harmony. Luther declared that the Gospel, truly preached, always creates uffrur, turns things upside down. Wherever Christ is born,