Colleagues,Now everybody’s trying to get into the act! The Crossings board–way back a year ago–decides to put together an international conference on Lutheran hermeneutics (a.k.a. The “Aha!” for reading the Bible that “moved” Martin Luther into Reformer mode). It’s a three-day affair here in St. Louis end of January. [There still is room.] Well, actually it’s across the …
The Augsburg Aha! The Gospel is a Promise, an Honest-to-God Promise. A Second Look at the Apology of the Augsburg Confession, Article 4.
PART I. AN AHA! FOR INTERPRETING THE BIBLE Thesis 1: The Augsburg Aha! happened first at Wittenberg, an Aha! about Biblical Hermeneutics. That is not the usual description of Luther’s reformation Aha! The standard description in Luther scholarship doesn’t mention hermeneutics. Here’s an example from Jaroslav Pelikan, major guru for the 55-volume edition of Luther’s works in …
How the Distinction of Law and Gospel Shapes My Preaching
Title in Conference Brochure: How the Distinction of Law and Gospel Shapes My Preaching Title in “Conference at a Glance” Preaching the Augsburg ‘Aha!’ Frederick Niedner, Valparaiso University One of the most helpful things I ever learned about preaching has to do with the importance of cultivating imagery and metaphors. I also learned from the late Walter …
What Drives My Life? A Study in Law and Gospel
John G Strelan 1. The Word of God Incarnate Inscripturated Proclaimed A textbook? A life-style manual? Static or dynamic? 2. The dual action of the Word of God Demands from us (=the law) Gives to us (=the gospel) 3. The law-driven life (slavery) Threat Fear Guilt and shame 4. The theological & pastoral problems involved here …
Today’s Debates on How to Read St. Paul-1
Stephan K. Turnbull Introduction The topic I’ve been asked to present to you in these breakout sessions, and the topic which I’m glad for the opportunity to address especially among a group of confessional Lutheran colleagues, is “Today’s Debates on How to Read St. Paul.” Looking back five and half years to my graduation from Luther Seminary, I …
Today’s Debates on How to Read St. Paul
Romans 3:21-31 21 Nuni. de. cwri.j no,mou dikaiosu,nh qeou/pefane,rwtai marturoume,nh u`po. tou/ no,mou kai. tw/n profhtw/n( 22 dikaiosu,nh de. qeou/ dia. pi,stewj vIhsou/ Cristou/ eivj pa,ntaj tou.j pisteu,ontaj) ouv ga,r evstin diastolh,( 23 pa,ntej ga,r h[marton kai. u`sterountai th/j do,xhj tou/ qeou/ 24 dikaiou,menoi dwrea.n th/| auvtou/ ca,riti dia. th/j avpolutrw,sewj th/j evn Cristw/| vIhsou/\ 25 o[n proe,qeto …
Using Law-Gospel to Interpret Scripture
Robert Kolb The proper distinction of law and gospel is a popular mantra, a much-used tool, a commonplace so common that we hardly need to stop and reflect on it. And yet it is precisely such commonplaces that we tend to take for granted. Therefore, a little practice at doing it cannot hurt since the distinguishing is …
Luther’s Reading of the Human Condition
Robert Kolb Who am I? What does it mean to be human? On the one hand, those are questions that most people in human history have spent little time thinking over. On most days we take it for granted that we are living a human life, perhaps labeled good or bad, better or worse, but something no …
Attending to the Care and Redemption of All that God Has Made
Uniting the Concerns of Theology and Science through the Lens of Luther’s Distinction between Law and Gospel and in a Meta-Narrative of Stewardship Steven C. Kuhl I. Introduction: The conflict between Theology and Science is an opportunity to save Theology and Science from their respective ideological captivities, left and right. 1. Theology (properly understood as “claims about …
CHRISTIAN ZIONISM AND THE CHRIST OF THE CROSS
By Carolyn Schneider Assistant Professor of Theology Texas Lutheran University, Seguin “Honest-to God-Gospel for a Dying World” is no joke. Its urgency was impressed on me during the sabbatical that I took during the 2005-2006 academic year. For the first six months, July – January, I lived in the West Bank, three months in Bethlehem and three …
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