souls.Luther called any theology based on human speculation and natural theology “a theology of glory.” Theologians of glory come in all shapes and sizes. A sixty-year-old Sunday-school teacher or a six-year-old angel in a Christmas pageant can be an agent of this soul-damaging theology of glory. “Natural theology,” writes Luther scholar Paul Althaus, “and speculative metaphysics which seek to know God from the works of creation are in the same category as the works righteousness of the moralist” [6] In