This book was written as a protest against the demythologizing tendencies which characterize so much contemporary theology: it questions the assumption that the New Testament can be understood in terms other than its own. In particular the author is dissatisfied with the interpretation of the miracles that such theology can give. In his submission, a theology which acknowledges, and then fails to take account of, or strips away altogether, the demonological thought-world into which the miracle stories are woven, results in only a partial estimate of their significance. Here the miracles are...

THE BIBLE Twice Denied falls into three parts. The first part begins with a sketch of Luther's interpretation of Paul. Paul's negative anthropology, man's helplessness: "I can will what is right but I cannot do it;" Paul's belief in demonic powers, "we fight not with flesh and blood but with the spiritual host of wickedness, the world rulers of this present darkness;" Paul's insistence that sin is not an act but an invasion, a condition of bondage, "it is no longer I that do it but the sin which dwells within me," or, as the Augsburg Confession defined it, "a disease of origin." Part one ends...