Do Luther and Forde regard the Ten Commandments as divine revelation? Human codes? Read more here
“Spontaneity” has more than one meaning
It has been said that for Lutherans ethics is “spontaneous” rather than legalistic. But “spontaneous” can mean “doing what comes naturally” or being free to use our heads in the battles of life. Which is it? Read more here.
ELCA Presiding Bishop Eaton and “the cross”
ELCA Presiding Bishop Eaton and “the cross” What kind of Lutheran is Elizabeth Eaton, the new ELCA Presiding Bishop? Outgoing Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson says of her: “She is a wise theologian committed to a strong Lutheran evangelical witness….”[1] To be sure, she’s known to point to the cross: “On our own we are helpless […]
Cranach Altar Painting
Christ the Center The Predella of the Cranach Altar Triptych This painting is the bottom panel of the Cranach altar in Wittenberg’s Town Church. It is the best known among the altar’s paintings and shows Luther in the pulpit preaching the “Word of the Cross.” One hand is on the open Bible; the other points […]
Forde got out of Biblicism; you can, too – 18
“The distinctive character of current Lutheranism, however, is largely the result of its continuing search for its own roots in the Reformation and Luther’s thought itself. Beginning in about the 1840s, when J.C.K. von Hofmann appealed to Luther in the argument over atonement, Luther was for the first time set against Lutheran orthodoxy on a […]