{"id":4977,"date":"2019-10-08T04:42:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T11:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=4977"},"modified":"2019-10-08T11:25:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T18:25:27","slug":"the-new-book-the-essential-forde-is-pseudo-forde-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=4977","title":{"rendered":"The new book, <em>The Essential Forde<\/em>, is pseudo-Forde (5)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<center><a href=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/The-new-book-The-Essential-Forde-5.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Please click here for the full PDF version, including tables.<\/a> <\/center><br>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGod and the scriptures are two different things, as different as Creator and creature,\u201d wrote Luther in his response to Erasmus. Luther dared to stress the distance: two different things\u2014like Creator and creature. This assertion distinguishes Luther from the biblicism of his day and ours. The implications of this assertion are developed in Luther\u2019s thesis on the clarity of scripture.<\/p>\n<p>Seventeenth century Lutheran orthodoxy mistook this thesis as a claim to scriptural inerrancy. The twentieth century Luther renaissance rediscovered the proper understanding of this thesis. Forde\u2019s theology, what he called post-liberal Lutheranism, is representative of this rediscovery and its importance. He held that there could be no compromise between inerrancy and the law\/gospel method. The stakes could not be higher: \u201cWe are fighting for the restoration of the gospel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new book, <em>The Essential Forde<\/em>, is silent about Forde\u2019s lifelong battles against inerrancy. Yet his Lutheran Quarterly editors, Steven Paulson and Mark Mattes, imply that they share with Forde a common view of the clarity and proper use of scripture, even as they promote inerrancy, law as an eternal moral order, and a third use of the law, as the  following chart shows:<\/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-4977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977","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=4977"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4993,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4977\/revisions\/4993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}