{"id":4057,"date":"2019-03-05T14:29:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T21:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=4057"},"modified":"2019-05-08T05:42:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T12:42:34","slug":"oberman-on-the-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=4057","title":{"rendered":"Oberman on the Gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"110\" height=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Oberman.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4063\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cLuther learned to draw life from the struggle against the\nDevil. For the just shall <em>live<\/em> by\nfaith, and \u2018life\u2019 does not begin in Heaven. According to the medieval <em>memento mori <\/em>[Latin: Remember that you\nhave to die], in the midst of life we are surrounded by death. Luther\u2019s faith\nenabled him to vigorously turn this on its head: \u2018In the midst of death we are\nsurrounded by life.\u2019\u201d \u2013 Heiko Oberman, <em>Luther:\nMan between God and the Devil<\/em> (1982) 330.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLuther learned to draw life from the struggle against the Devil. For the just shall live by faith, and \u2018life\u2019 does not begin in Heaven. According to the medieval memento mori [Latin: Remember that you have to die], in the midst of life we are surrounded by death. Luther\u2019s faith enabled him to vigorously turn [&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-4057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057","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=4057"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4325,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057\/revisions\/4325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}