{"id":1005,"date":"2010-07-28T16:05:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T23:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2010-07-28T16:05:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T23:05:38","slug":"elca-bishop-promotes-barth-avoids-lutheran-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=1005","title":{"rendered":"ELCA Bishop Promotes Barth, Avoids Lutheran Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barth famously said: \u201cPreach with  the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other,\u201d and of course the Bible  is trump.\u00a0 But Barth also famously rejected law and gospel for gospel and  law.\u00a0It makes all the difference.<\/p>\n<p>When  Bishop\u00a0Duane C.  Pederson\u00a0(NW WI) in  <em>The Lutheran<\/em> (August, 2010, pp.  24-25) advocates the Barthian approach, it is hard to know whether to  laugh or cry.\u00a0Either he is woefully ignorant or he is woefully  ignorant.\u00a0Lutherans have proclaimed law and gospel, and these categories do  not come second.\u00a0Of course we take up context and Scripture, but primary is  Christ alone through grace (the cross) alone by faith  alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barth famously said: \u201cPreach with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other,\u201d and of course the Bible is trump.\u00a0 But Barth also famously rejected law and gospel for gospel and law.\u00a0It makes all the difference. When Bishop\u00a0Duane C. Pederson\u00a0(NW WI) in The Lutheran (August, 2010, pp. 24-25) advocates the Barthian approach, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}