Grace via Martin Luther

[David Morris]

http://religion.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.001.0001/acrefore-9780199340378-e-335

Most interpreters have rightly understood that in Luther’s view, to have a
gracious God means to have a God who does not require human beings to
fulfill a set of prerequisites in order to receive God’s gift in Christ or
to reciprocate God’s giving in order to continue receiving Christ and his
benefits. For Luther, to have a God of grace means to believe and trust
that through Jesus Christ, God has already met all prerequisites and
fulfilled all reciprocations. On this point, Luther found himself breaking
new ground (or recovering lost ground) in the understanding of divine
grace. Luther “broke” with those theological forebears who taught that
divine grace was, in one way or another, partly dependent on human willing
and doing.
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