 In response, however, Feuerbach argues that is a superficial reading, as the role of God is to restore to us what we have lost: “Man in himself is and can do nothing, but in God (that is through faith) he is and can do everything” (1844 [1967: 46]). This can be seen, Feuerbach argues, in the way that Luther (in his opposition to Catholicism) emphasises the way in which he takes Christ’s suffering to be for us, so that what appeared to be a divergence becomes a radical convergence. Feuerbach’s appropriation of Luther (which of course remains controversial) is therefore summarized when he writes: 