Kathryn Tanner on the risks of Christian discourse “The problems of Christian practice that prompt theological reflection are legion. If we narrow them down to those that afflict religious discourse, it is possible to give a rough classification of them. First, Christians may exhibit a tendency to mis-speak: they may make statements whose well-formed character or […]
Robert Jenson on theology and ecumenism “It is becoming increasingly clear that reestablishment of ecclesial fellowship between East and West and within the West across the divisions begun at the Reformation will not occur by any straightforward continuation of [the efforts of modern ecumenism]. It increasingly appears that no degree of theological convergence can by […]
Since the arms of the crucified embrace the neighbour, genuinely to live in Christ is always to live in the neighbour as well. Never shallow, Luther insisted we live in the neighbour [in three ways. First,] by sharing her need. This isn’t especially difficult, since we are meeting her scarcity with our abundance. In the second […]
Telford Work on the Second Epistle of John “What use is this tiny little letter? Is it in the New Testament by accident? Not at all. Rather, it’s a sign – a sign pointing to the kind of community that could have authored it. It greets us as beloved cousins in an extended family: “The […]
Young fellows are tempted by girls, men who are thirty years old are tempted by gold, when they are forty years old they are tempted by honor and glory, and those who are sixty years old say to themselves, “What a pious man I have become”! Martin Luther, excerpt from Table Talk (1566), in A Reformation Reader, edited […]
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