Faith Is A Living Bold Trust

Written in 1522 as a preface to Luther's German New Testament, this passage from the Preface to Romans became one of the Reformation's most influential texts. Luther was countering the accusation that justification by faith alone made good works irrelevant; he argued instead that genuine faith is itself a living, divine work that makes good works inevitable. The definition influenced John Wesley's conversion experience in 1738, when he heard Luther's preface read aloud at a meeting in Aldersgate Street, London.