LEONARD VERDUIN, pastor and author (Contemporary)
"We meet in Luther [as well as the entire Reformed /Calvinist
/Puritan tradition], to put it theologically, a very heavy emphasis on the forensic
aspect of salvation and a correspondingly light emphasis on the moral aspect. Luther was
primarily interested in pardon, rather than in renewal. His theology was a theology that
addresses itself to the problem of guilt, rather than to the problem of pollution. There
is an imbalance in this theology between what God does for man and what He does in
man." brackets mine
The Reformers and Their Stepchildren,
p. 12.
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