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                                                                                                                According to Gogarten (Luthers Theologie: 51),

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It seems ever clearer to me that what Luther says already in his Lectures on Romans – -- that even the heathen would have been saved had they simply stayed with and worshiped God as God had manifested Godself to them and to all human beings – -- is anything but an isolated statement that can be safely ignored. It is, in fact, an early statement of a view that comes to expression again and again, attesting the extent to which Luther, in his way, understood the Christian understanding of human existence in something like what Maurice would call its full "length and breadth."

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