Martin Luther on the person of Christ
One person in two natures, unconfused and undivided
I believe that Jesus Christ is truly God, born of the Father in eternity and also truly man, born of the Virgin Mary. He is my Lord!
THE POSITION
One person, truly God and truly man. Luther states it catechetically rather than as a disputed thesis — the Son alone became man, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of Mary, and the confessing Christian says of the same subject that he is 'truly God, born of the Father in eternity and also truly man, born of the Virgin Mary.' The two natures matter to him practically: it is a man's blood that redeems, and it is God's.
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ABOUT THIS FIGURE
Augustinian friar whose protest over indulgences opened the Reformation, and the theologian for whom justification by faith and the bondage of the will are the whole of the gospel. This entry rests on his own writings only — The Bondage of the Will (1525), the Smalcald Articles (1537), the Large and Small Catechisms (1529), Concerning Christian Liberty (1520), the Heidelberg Disputation (1518), the Church Postil and his biblical prefaces — and deliberately excludes the Augsburg Confession and the Formula of Concord, which are not his.
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"Martin Luther on the person of Christ", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/luther/christology (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/luther/christology).