“Christ ought to be preached with this goal in mind — that we might be moved to faith in him so that he is not just a distant historical figure but actually Christ for you and me.”

— Martin Luther

Source: The Freedom of a Christian (1520), p. 69

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seminal figure in Protestant Reformation 1483–1546

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