On two week break - returning March 5.
Did I say two weeks? I meant five - returning March 26.
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
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
1 comment:
Happy St Patrick's Day to ya!
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