26 October 2010

Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

Thus this holy supper will transform our souls; this most divine sacrament will make us divine men. -- Blessed Johann Gerhard, Sacred Meditation XX

2 comments:

Paul said...

With such a rich history, one wonders how men like Caemmerer could have missed it, and how so many still do.

William Weedon said...

Paul, isn't that the oddest thing? It's ALL OVER the tradition. Shoot, even in Gerhard's very first volume of his Loci, he states quite clearly that the point of theology is "that it makes men divine or 'partakers of the divine nature'."