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Does Martin Luther have anything to say to us today? Nearly five hundred years after the beginning of the Reformation, Hans-Martin Barth explores that question in this comprehensive and critical evaluation of Luther’s theology. Rich in its extent and in its many facets, Barth’s didactically well-planned work begins with clarifications about obsolete and outdated images of Luther that could...

should be called a “fool.” Access to the knowledge of God by way of creation, or reason that analyzes creation, is closed. Human beings have misused this way by confusing the creation with its Creator, and now the reverse path from the visible to the invisible is no longer possible. God has chosen a new way—in Christ. The one who does proper theology is instead the one “who comprehends the visible and manifest things of God seen through suffering and the cross” (Thesis 20). What is at issue is recognizing
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