Since it is Dr. Martin Luther's birthday today, and because my book review is still on draft mode, I will have to settle with a quote from the Doktor himself (the photo above) and Dr. Trueman (explaining said quote):
"Thus, divine love, by contrast, is not reactive but creative: God does not find that which is lovely and then move out in love toward it; something is made lovely by the fact that God first sets his love upon it. He does not look at sinful human beings and see among the mass of people some who are intrinsically more righteous or holy than others and thus find himself attracted to them. Rather, the lesson of the cross is that God chooses that which is unlovely and repulsive, unrighteous and with no redeeming quality, and lavishes his saving love in Christ upon it."- Carl Trueman, Cross and Freedom: Luther on the Christian Life
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