The Christian…is a spiritual beggar, who can do nothing except cry out for the salvation which is his in Christ.(P.91)

during Luther’s exegesis of the Psalter- that of iustitia Dei, “the righteousness of God".The origins of the theology of the cross lie in Luther’s initial difficulty in seeing how the idea of a righteous God could conceivable be good news for sinful man.(P.92)

後記:截至目前為止,讀Luther’s Theology of the cross讓我感到吃力的地方,是作者在本書裡面,引用了許多第三語言,諸如Iudiciun,Dictata,caritas,dilectio.Quadriga,pactum,而對於相關詞彙解釋的中文資料,更是遍尋不著,看起來要了解Luther’s Theology of the cross的內容,還得加把勁了!

three particularly significant elements of later medieval thought..studia humanitatis..via moderna..schola Augustiniana moderna(P.27)

By the time of the Leipzig disputation of 1519,..between Luther and the humanist movement…1.their mutual rejection of scholasticism..2.their mutual desire to return to the early father of the church..3.their mutual desire to return to Holy Scripture..4.their mutual interest in rhetoric.(P.50-51)

尋找閱讀台灣，新加坡，美國華人教會及香港關於馬丁路德十架神學的中文論述過程中，發現大部份都曾引述或引用過麥葛福之Luther’s Theology of the cross的內容，引發我想要完整讀這本書的動機，並寫下摘要：
The crucified God is not merely the foundation of the Christian faith, but is also the key to a proper understanding of the nature of God.(本書前言)

what man must do if he is to saved?(P.9)

How can a sinner enter into fellowship with a holy and righteous God? How can the troubled conscience find peace by discovering a gracious God?(p.12)

For Luther, Jesus Christ is the righteousness of God, revealing at one and the same time God’s condemnation of sin and remedy for it. Through the creative power of the Holy Spirit and the hearing of the Word of the gospel, the sinner shares in the divine righteousness through faith.(P.21)

In reading Luther, Ranke gave special attention to Luther’s interpretation of Psalm 101 (1534/35). In this interpretation of the psalm, Luther developed his own theological view of history.(P.218)

Harnack was the first to demonstrate the meaning of this concept, which was so central to The Bondage of the Will.(P.221)

Holl was the first to combine historical and systematic perspectives in his study of Luther.(P.224)

We experience both this absolute demand and our own inadequacy in our conscience. This is the place where we meet God. This experience of God’s ethical demand and our own failure to meet that demand is the basis on which we experience the judging and the gracious God.(P.225)

Luther did not see creation as a finished act but rather as an ongoing event. Luther understood creation as a present reality.(P.172)

any study of Luther’s doctrine must take into account the development of his viewpoints.(P.190)

God is revealed through self-veiling..,we need faith to recognize God’s revelation as it is concealed in the events of history.(P.194)

The category of “hiddenness" is thus extraordinarily important, both in Luther’s theology of the cross and in his view of history. God creates life by putting us to death. When judging us, God is being gracious to us.(P.196)

Revelation and hiddenness are available only as a dialectical unity. Only in Jesus Christ do we encounter God as our savior.(P.196)

history ultimately summons everyone to believe. We are repeatedly tested as to whether we really want to hear God’s Word or not,,.Each person therefore, is summoned to meet the spiritual temptations that come to us through our experience of history with firm trust in God.(P.197)..,Until the very end, the devil will never give up struggling against the light..,For after all..,it was, is, and will be he who says,"I am with you always, to the close of the age".(P.198)