“…On the one hand, he tries to affirm, with Paul, that faith is an instrumental cause of justification, but on the other, because of Trent, he ends up reducing its relevance to the liturgical event of baptism, the 'sacrament of faith'. Hahn does speak of faith and baptism as the 'twin instruments of salvation', 14 but, for Hahn, all this seems to come down to is that both faith and baptism are necessary for initial justification, and that faith becomes salvific only in baptism. 15 Additional frustration is caused by the fact that Hahn uses this strategy to argue against Luther's sola fide, which was in no way directed against baptism.…”