Evaluate the iconography of Cranach's Allegory of Law and Grace (Fig. 17.5) in terms of Lutheran doctrine
What will be an ideal response?
Cranach uses a half-living, half-dead tree to illustrate the difference between Catholic dependency on good works and Protestant reliance on grace or faith. On the dead side a sinner is condemned to hell because of his inevitable failure as a child of Adam and Eve to live by God's law. On the living side of the tree, Christ's sacrifice and resurrection steps on Death and the Devil and a sinner, bathed in the blood of Christ is saved by his belief.
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