Douglas L. Rutt

The Masks of God

Theology

“This rich and carefully structured study of Luther’s ‘masks of God’ offers precisely the kind of confessional Lutheran theology our churches need in an age of confusion about where and how God is at work in the world. Grounded in the distinction between the hidden and revealed God and in the centrality of Christ’s incarnation as the only saving self-disclosure of the Father, the author traces how God binds himself to his chosen instruments: the external word, the sacraments, and his concrete ‘signs’ in history. By attending closely to Luther’s exegesis of Genesis and his teaching on the ministry of the word, law and Gospel, the true and the false church, and God’s ordering of home, church, and civil government, this work unfolds a profoundly evangelical vision that is thoroughly in harmony with the Scriptures and the Lutheran Confessions.”