Andrew McNeely’s Reviews > Luther: Man Between God and the Devil > Status Update

“Luther liberated the Christian conscience, liberated it from papal decree and canon law. But he also took it captive through the Word of God and imposed on it the responsibility to render service to the world. That is why in all realms of life, be they marriage and sexuality, civic duties or obedience to temporal authorities, the Word of God must be heard anew…”

“[Luther] tried to urge his ‘beloved Germans’ into a unity of faith and purge them of that nationalism which dreams of the union of religion and blood…He would…have condemned any identification of Church and nation as running counter to God’s will: equating God’s people with a state or nation, be it Germany or Rome, not only perverts the Gospel, it also threatens world peace.”