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notes to pages 117–122 323
71. “Sermons on the Catechism (1528),” WA 30.I:100–102; LW 51:174.
72. WA 40.I:54.12–16; LW 26:14.
73. WA 40.I:14.17; LW 26:64.
74. WA 40.I:345.27–30; LW 26:215.
75. Preface to the Psalter, 1528, WADB 10.I:102.30–32; Dillenberger, 40.
76. His lectures and ceaseless publication should thus be understood as an act of
worship, a way of living in the word. On this point, see Marius, Martin Luther,
104.
77. D. Martin Luthers Werke: Tischreden, 6 vols. (Weimar: Hermann Böhlaus Nachfolger,
1912–21), 5:653 (hereaft er, WATr); English translation from Oberman, Luther,
169–70. Luther’s great insight would in fact have been impossible without
the knowledge of the diff erent meanings of dikaiosune, the Greek term usually
translated as “justifi cation.”
78. Dillenberger, xxxi.
79. Archiv zur Weimarer Lutherausgabe, vol. 2: D. Martin Luther Operationes in psalmos
1519–1521, part III: Psalm 1–10 (Cologne, 1981), 2.389, 15f.; exegesis of Ps. 6:11
(hereaft er AWA); On this point, see Oberman, Luther, 173, 248.
80. “Preface to the New Testament, 1522,” WADB 6:10.29–35; Dillenberger, 19.
81. WADB 10.I:100.13–15; Dillenberger, 38.
82. WADB 7:20.31–21.12; Dillenberger, 31.
83. WA 40.I:241.12–16; LW 26:137–38. Marius insightfully remarks that Luther’s cosmic
drama is reminiscent of the cult of Dionysus, guaranteeing salvation through the
mystic joining of the initiate to the god. Martin Luther, 271–72. It is also important
to note that for Luther the primal Christian experience is a radically individual
encounter with God.
84. WA 40.I:282.17–22, 283.21–23; LW 26:166–67.
85. WA 40.I:283.26–32; LW 26:167.
86. WA 40.I:287.27–29; LW 26:169–70. Recently, the “Finnish school” of Luther interpretation,
founded by Tuomo Mannermaa, has asserted that the center of Luther’s
understanding of justifi cation by faith is based on the idea of union with Christ: in
ispe fi de Christus adest. See Mannermaa’s Christ Present in Faith: Luther’s View of
Justifi cation, ed. Kirsi Stherna (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005). For a critical evaluation
of this position see Dennis Bielfeldt, “Response,” in Union with Christ: Th e
New Finnish Interpretation of Luther, ed. Carl E. Braaten and Robert W. Jenson,
(Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998), 161–66.
87. WA 40.I:313.19–21; LW 26:189.
88. WADB 7:23.23–25; Dillenberger, 32.
89. WA 40.I:45.27–46.2; LW 26:7.
90. WA 7:60.21–23; LW 31:359.
91. Oberman, Luther, 291.
92. “Temporal Authority: To What Extent It Should Be Obeyed, 1523,” WA 11:250.18–20;
LW 45:89.
93. WA 11:250.26–29; LW 45:90.
94. WA 11:251.12–15; LW 45:91.