The question at issue was not, How can individual sinners find salvation? but rather, Are Christian Jews bound, by the Jewish kosher laws, to eat separately from Christian Gentiles, or are they bound by the
‘But for Paul, the problem is not that individuals and communities sin and need forgiveness; in fact, Israel had a system of atonement to deal with sins. The problem is that sin and its henchman
2/3/11 The theme of the unmasking of hypocrisy is seen in two different books I am reading, Darkness at Noon and The Invisible Man. In both the protagonist believes in the abstract ideals of the
Nevertheless, we’re likely to enter a period in which the U.S. is simply one of a number of economic powers that challenge one another for dominance. Paul Kennedy, a historian of the rise and fall
The Karl Barth Centennial: An Appreciative Critique “from all eternity God has determined upon man’s acquittal at his own cost” (Dogmatics II, 2, p. 167). Therefore, “there is no such thing as a created nature
As to systemic evil, I’m referring to something like the Guinea Worm parasite, or maybe a case where an earthquake happens in a poor area, and all of the dwellings cave in, crushing the residents.
Henry Ringar has a pagan religion, so not seeing any manifestation of supernatural reality when his mother died, he is further confirmed in his atheist position.
Abraham is a dubious model of religious identity, for most of us do not directly hear God’s voice. If faith’s dependence on ritual tradition is forgotten, there is a danger of overvaluing individual inwardness. Much
Cary – What Luther’s theology offers on this score is an account of the knowledge of God that does not depend on the notion of a power or faculty of intellectual vision, and that therefore
Remembering Gerhard Forde By Story Magazine Second Quarter 2005 Luther Seminary gives thanks for the witness and wisdom of Professor Emeritus Gerhard O. Forde, ’55, who died Aug. 9, 2005 after a long illness. For almost