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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...

much so that it gets rather tiresome after a while.” True. But the fact that Christians chatter about the cross does not mean that they really proclaim or exemplify what Luther meant by a theology of the cross. Luther made a sharp distinction between a theology of the cross and what he called “a theology of glory.” It is hard for us today to grasp the exact meaning of that rather subtle distinction. It might be easier to understand if we say that he made a distinction between a theology of the cross
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