Online Journal Article: "Shock And Awe: The Reformers And The Stunning Joy Of Romans 1–8" Jets 61/2 (2018): 231–44

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JETS 61/2 (2018): 231–44
SHOCK AND AWE: THE REFORMERS AND THE
STUNNING JOY OF ROMANS 1–8
By GWENFAIR WALTERS ADAMS
Abstract: In response to the suggestion of some scholars that the Reformers’ understanding of
the gospel was unhelpfully skewed by the idiosyncrasies of their time period, this address
(delivered at a plenary session of the 2017 ETS conference) argues that there are four factors in the
late medieval world that prepared the sixteenth-century Reformers to understand the gospel at a
deep level and respond to it with great joy. It draws on the life of Martin Luther, Ulrich
Zwingli’s sermon preached to nuns in a Dominican convent, the Romans commentaries of the
Reformers, and the art of Roger van der Weyden, the Lucas Cranachs Elder and Younger,
and Michelangelo, to illustrate the transition from medieval to Reformation understandings of
the gospel. Key words: gospel, Romans, justification by faith alone, Reformation, medieval, Martin
Luther, sola fide, joy, art