Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Thoughts on the radical Luther and his unpopular theology
What I'm Reading
- The Quest for Holiness, by Adolf Koberle
- The Preached God, by Gerhard Forde
- The Theology of the Cross for the 21st Century, Edited by Garcia and Raj
- The Foolishness of God, by Siegbert Becker
"If the Gospel is proclaimed correctly, it's always going to sound nuts to us."
- Robert Farrar Capon
"God does not need our good works, but our neighbor does."
- Gustaf Wingren, paraphrasing Luther
"There's a lot to think about, but nothing to worry about."
- Matt Koepke, 1965-2006
"Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle."
- Unknown
Blog Archive
-
▼
2007
(62)
-
▼
January
(25)
- The Wauwatosa Theology
- -ism This!
- The Smell of an Old Wineskin
- Law Cannot Make us Willing
- Now What? Moral Progress?
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Assumption of Bondage
- Misunderstood Imperatives
- Finding Fault
- Robert Farrar Capon
- The End of Religion
- The Elephant in the Room
- Conventional Wisdom on Its Head
- Shut Down the Blog
- Essentially Lutheran
- A Curious Faith
- Can God Prove He Exists?
- Gerhard Forde
- The Simul
- My Land
- McLaren and The Lost Luther
- My Confirmation
- The Hinge on Which All Turns
- Unreasonable Opposites
- All of us are theologians
-
▼
January
(25)
Topics
- Bondage of the Will (2)
- Capon (2)
- Faith (3)
- Forde (10)
- Giving (1)
- Jukes (2)
- Luther (1)
- McLaren (1)
- Movies (2)
- Personal (5)
- Philosophy (1)
- Postmodernism (2)
- Reason (1)
- Science (2)
- Scripture (1)
- The Atonement (7)
- The Church (4)
- The Gospel (1)
- The Sacraments (1)
- The Semper (2)
- The Simul (5)
- Theology (1)
- Theology of the Cross (11)
- Third Use of the Law (3)
- Unconditional Gospel (2)
- Universalism (8)
- Vocation (1)
- Wauwatosa Theology (1)
About Me
As a Lutheran layman, formerly WELS now LCMS, I behaved myself for almost fifty years. Then about ten years ago I found myself at odds with my church's doctrine of church fellowship. Although my dispute was ostensibly about church practice, it was theology-based, exposing more serious disagreements concering the proper use of the Law, the unconditionality of the Gospel, Christian liberty and the assurance of my salvation. The whole experience was bitter sweet. It led to my departure from the WELS but it gave me the freedom to explore theologies outside my parochial ken. After following rabbit trails hither and yon, I returned to Luther himself and a happy discovery of the largely incredible and vastly unpopular implications of his theology of the cross - something I had not previously understood and certainly could find no where else in Christendom. In fact, Luther himself seemed largely absent from modern Christian thought - a rather sad commentary on something. Perhaps he will fare better among the postmoderns, though so far I have found no evidence of that.
Copyright, 2007. All Rights Reserved. Terence E. Hahm
4 comments:
To find anything, one must start lookking for it,
It seems that would be so.
At the same time..."Who can discern his errors? Forgive my hidden faults." (Psalm 19:12)
Tennyson wrote, " I wake, and I DISCERN the truth". If all that we are is awake to the TRUTH then the errors will be made known to us, including the hidden faults with little effort on our own. It will be up to us (free will) what we do with our discoveries.
At the end of the day do we not, all of us, wrestle with the demons of hypocrisy, false teaching and judgmentalism, realizing that we can do nothing to find peace from these demons apart from the grace and mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ.
I think it was Kris Kristofferson who wrote a song that spoke of being, "a walking contradiction, partly truth and partly ficition."
Whether we know our faults or not ... bottom line is we can't fix them ourselves. We can't pull ourselves up by our own boot straps ... we need a redeemer.
"O LORD, my rock and my redeemer." (Psalm 19:14)
Post a Comment