Steven D. Paulson

“Faith grasps a promise in complete assurance. When faith has a promise it does not submit, it fights—not on the basis of a legal claim or human power but on the basis of the free, imputed justice of Christ apart from the law. That is, Christ forgives the sinner, and this forgiveness becomes the ground for powerful assertions—even against God himself. For Erasmus, faith goes silent before the hidden God, but for Luther, faith gets its voice and begins verbalizing to God in prayer by asserting: you promised!”
― Steven D. Paulson, Luther's Outlaw God: Hiddenness, Evil, and Predestination