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Where God Meets Man: Luther’s Down-to-Earth Approach to the Gospel is unavailable, but you can change that!

This book about Luther’s theology is written out of a two-fold conviction. First, that many of our problems have arisen because we have not really understood our own traditions, especially in the case of Luther; and second, that there is still a lot of help for us in someone like Luther if we take the trouble to probe beneath the surface. It is an attempt to interpret Luther’s theology for our...

as law. Law is not a ladder to heaven; it is the mark of man’s existence in this age, from the rustling of the leaves to the agony of the cross. It is the voice, which for the sinner, never ends. If we look on the law in this way, we can begin to grasp also the dynamic vitality, the “good news” character of the gospel. For the gospel too must be seen in terms of what it does. For what is the Gospel? It is the end of the law! That is to say that what the gospel does is
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