1. Her importance goes beyond simply managing the reformer’s household.
  2. The Pope Leo X used the psalm description of a boar uprooting grape vines in a vineyard as a metaphor for what the upstart German monk had been doing at that backwater university.
  3. Divine election hacking happens with the proposal that God’s Word is irrelevant and powerless, weak and impotent.
  4. True preaching arises when the Holy Spirit steeps the proclaimer in its own cycle of judgment and mercy.
  5. The Confessions instead look forward and provide a critique of the world and of all my various religions and idolatries.