Heinrich Müller (1631-1675) on Bearing Crosses Are you tested in the oven of misfortune? It is no achievement to be pious when all is going well. A Christian is known in the midst of crosses. Anyone can be a helmsman in good wind and still weather. It is especially in bad weather that you see what […]
Charles Wood on Acts of God That there is a God who acts at all is not something a careful observer of the world’s occurrences is inescapably driven to conclude. [95] … It is therefore from God that we first learn of the acts of God. That is, it is the word of God that […]
Is There an Entry for “Formation” in the Lutheran Lexicon? A. On Formation In those branches of Christian tradition where the term itself is most at home, “formation” is viewed as a deliberate undertaking in which those who are spiritually more mature direct and assist the less mature, and “forming” is seen as an apt term for […]
Richard Hays on the poetic sensibility of the Gospels If we learn from them [the NT’s four evangelists] how to read, we will approach the reading of Scripture with a heightened awareness of story, metaphor, prefiguration, allusion, echo, reversal, and irony. To read Scripture well, we must bid farewell to plodding literalism and rationalism in […]
Robert Jenson comments on Ezekiel 22:30-31 The involvement – and indeed emotional involvement – of the Lord in his people’s history could hardly be more drastically pictured than here [22:30-31]. We find the Lord on both sides of Jerusalem’s walls: assaulting the city for its evils and seeking someone to fend off his own attack. […]
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