“The Most Difficult Thing of All”: Luther on Justification and Passive Righteousness
Martin Luther on why believing in justification by faith alone is a matter of the highest art and skill.
Martin Luther on why believing in justification by faith alone is a matter of the highest art and skill.
A new translation and commentary on Meditations 2.2.
Yesterday’s Gospel reading for the Fifth Sunday after Trinity, according to the traditional Western lectionary, was Luke 5:1-11: And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him…
Yesterday’s Gospel reading, according to the traditional Western lectionary, was Luke 6:36-42: 36 Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. 37 Judge not, and ye shall not be judged:…
A student once called me “vaguely pagan,” which I did NOT appreciate. However. While I’ve shared several epigrams from Book 1 of the Greek Anthology here, today I give to…
Last time, we looked at a comment Luther makes in his preface to the 1535 Galatians commentary. Below, as he warms up for the commentary itself, he explains why he…
Martin Luther begins the preface to his 1535 Galatians commentary by saying, more or less, “Wow, I cannot BELIEVE how verbose I was in the lectures that form the basis…
I haven’t posted a verse translation On Here in a while (since April 25th, in fact), and am trying to get back into it. So I have one for today,…
Yesterday was the Feast of the Trinity, for which the traditional Gospel text comes from John 3:1-15. For this post, I’ve translated a brief passage from Niels Hemmingsen’s Postil sermon…
Abortion–which is a euphemism for “killing one’s own offspring”–has been in the news again, and with it the usual moral confusions, including among Christians. Thus one learns that one must…
