title: Martin Luther: Faith in Christ and the Gospel
author: Eric W. Gritsch
description: Eric Gritsch in this collection puts his finger on the pulse of the Reformer so that we can sense the heartbeat of this religious genius.
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  # Praise for _Long before Luther_
  
  
  We hear far too often that the doctrine of forensic justification through
  faith was an invention of the Protestant Reformers, as if the church had never
  before heard of any such thing. This unbalanced judgment has been challenged
  strongly, and in my opinion very successfully, by Nathan Busenitz in this
  well-researched and accessible contribution to Reformation scholarship. I
  commend it to Protestants and Roman Catholics alike. No future conversations
  or polemics between the two should ignore what Busenitz has here achieved.
  
  
  **NICK NEEDHAM**  
  Church History Tutor, Highland Theological College  
  Author of _2000 Years of Christ’s Power_
  
  
  In this carefully researched and well-written book, Busenitz deconstructs the
  myth that salvation by faith alone through grace alone was invented by the
  Reformers. Here we see how the true gospel has been the faithful church’s
  central proclamation through the centuries. Yet this is not merely