Lutheranism on Sin and Grace

We now turn our attention to the period of the Reformation and, of course, first of all to that phase of the Reformation that was inaugurated through the instrumentality of the man Martin Luther. There is a wide and profound difference between the Lutheran and the Calvinistic phase of the Reformation, even as there is little in common between the character of Martin Luther and that of John Calvin. Of the two phases the latter is undoubtedly the more profound, doctrinal, systematic; the former...