Heidelberg Disputation (1518) Theologia Gloria and Theologia Crucis

  1. That person does not deserve to be called a theologian who looks upon the invisible things of God as though they were clearly perceptible in those things which have actually happened [Rom. 1:20].

  2. One deserves to be called a theologian, however, who comprehends the visible and manifest things of God seen through suffering and the cross.

 

Martin Luther, "Heidelberg Disputation" in Timothy F. Lull and William R. Russell, eds., Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings - 3rd Edition (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2012), 22