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...

As a creature man is to live, therefore, solely by faith. He is to trust God for the final outcome of things. He lives day by day, awaiting each day the new revelation of God’s will, not knowing necessarily how it will all end. He simply trusts God perfectly. That is his righteousness. He lives by faith, without fear, without anxiety. Luther surmised that had man remained in this state of “perfect righteousness and faith” God would at the end, have translated him to a new and perhaps immortal state.

Pages 55–56

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