“MISERABLE-SINNER CHRISTIANITY”1 IN THE HANDS OF THE RATIONALISTS ARTICLE I FROM RITSCHL TO WERNLE2 IT belongs to the very essence of the type of Christianity propagated by the Reformation that the believer should feel himself continuously unworthy of the grace by which he lives. At the center of this type of Christianity lies the contrast of sin and grace; and about this center everything else revolves. This is in large part the meaning of the emphasis put in this type of Christianity on justification