Quotable Quote

That person does not deserve to be called a theologian who looks upon the invisible things of God as though they were clearly perceptible in those things which have actually happened [Rom. 1.20].

 He deserves to be called a theologian, however, who comprehends the visible and manifest things of God seen through suffering and the cross.
 

A theologian of glory calls evil good and good evil. A theologian of the cross calls the things what it actually is.

Martin Luther, Heidelberg Disputation (1518), Theses 19-21.

Tags: Glory, Martin Luther, Suffering, Theodicy, Theologian, Theology, Theology of Glory, Theology of the Cross