Having dedicated much of his life to ecumenical exchange within Christendom through leadership at the Konfessionkundliches Institut des Evangelisches Bundes in Bensheim,[1] [Professor Hans-Martin] Barth forthrightly examines how Luther also clarifies the contributions that his latter-day adherents can make to ecumenical conversation. He notes that the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification of 1999 […]
“In the beginning was Diversity, … and Diversity was God.”
In the beginning was Diversity, and Diversity was with God, and Diversity was God. Diversity was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Diversity, and without it nothing was made that was made. In Diversity was life, and the life was the light of humankind. And Diversity shines in the darkness, and […]
Lord’s Prayers: Beyond the limits of diversity
Eternal Spirit, Earth-maker, Pain bearer, Life-giver, Source of all that is and that shall be, Father and Mother of us all, Loving God, in whom is heaven. The hallowing of your name echo through the universe! The way of your justice be followed by the peoples of the world! Your heavenly will be done by […]
Forde got out of Biblicism; you can, too (10)
“The insistence that scripture interprets itself is simply the hermeneutical correlate of justification by faith alone.” [1] “Take Christ out of the Scriptures and what will you find left in them?”[2]
ELCA Bishop Promotes Barth, Avoids Lutheran Categories
Barth famously said: “Preach with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other,” and of course the Bible is trump. But Barth also famously rejected law and gospel for gospel and law. It makes all the difference. When Bishop Duane C. Pederson (NW WI) in The Lutheran (August, 2010, pp. 24-25) advocates the Barthian approach, […]