Sublime

As Martin Luther said, “It wouldn’t matter if Jesus died a thousand times if no one ever heard about it.” It is impossible to understand that and not have your heart rise up to say, “Please, Lord, send me! Use me! I’m ready! Give your command.”

Melanchthon had begun to employ the notion of the so-called

So there are two parts of Christian teaching that we must emphasize daily. Neither faith nor works can be ignored.

INTRODUCTION

Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?” Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” John 6:28–

Under the pen of Luther, the principles of the movement became ever clearer: the ‘priesthood of all believers’, the complete dependency of the soul on God’s grace, unmerited election to salvation, the ‘bondage of the will’ of fallen humanity (either to the devil or to God), the ‘freedom of the Christian’, salvation by faith and not by works, and

We are justified through faith in Christ, not through our own efforts.

Érasme est sans doute celui qui voit le plus loin, qui sait le plus de choses, rien de ce qui concerne la vie ne lui est étranger. Claire et incolore comme la lumière du jour, sa raison abstraite pénètre par tous les joints, toutes les fissures secrètes, et illumine chaque objet. Luther, lui, possède un horizon infiniment moins vaste, mais il a