Where God Meets Man: Luther’s Down-to-Earth Approach to the Gospel (Biblia.com)

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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...

himself in Christ under the form of opposites—exactly the opposite from what we, with our systems, would expect. He comes in lowliness and humility and dies the death of a criminal. He does not buy off God, he simply dies. He is beaten, spit upon, ridiculed, nailed to a cross and killed. He suffers the total and ultimately meaningless destruction that is death. In the end he cries, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” and enters the dark nowhere of death. A theology of the cross affirms in

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