Martin Luther confessed that the justice of God is that righteousness by which, through grace and sheer mercy, God justifies us through faith. This was the discovery by Luther of justification by faith alone. …

Although Martin Luther became famous because of the publication of the Ninety-Five Theses in November 1517, his scholarly activities had led him to a biblical understand-ing of justification by …

Luther’s doctrine of sola fide in 1520 is closer to “union with Christ by faith alone” than to “justification by faith alone.” His major metaphor is the union of the believer and his Bridegroom. That brings the …

Justification by Faith Alone is taken from Martin Luther’s classic, A Commentary on Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians (Philadelphia: John Highlands, 1891). The translator is not named. “The Argument” …

Sep 23, 2025 · Through this commentary—drawn from lectures he delivered around 1531—Luther expounds the gospel of justification by faith, attacks legalism, and shows how Christ frees the …

IN THIS year filled with commemorations of the life Martin Luther began a half millennium ago, a straightforward exposition of the heart of his theology can be of interest and even of use. Also, the …

Luther assigned to his solifidian (by faith alone) doctrine of justification the central position in the Christian system, declared it to be the article of the standing or falling (Lutheran) church, and was …

the indulgence to be thus acquired, the Scala Santa, but that, before he reached the top he remembered the text, "The just shall live by faith," and he desisted. If authentic, this anecdote proves that he had …

Summary Justification was the central doctrine of the Christian faith for Martin Luther, and his articulation of it set the terms for the sixteenth-century debates between Catholicism and …

<p>"The Freedom of a Christian" by Martin Luther is a foundational text that explores the duality of Christian freedom and duty. Written in 1520, it articulates a central tenet of Reformation theology: …