{"id":930,"date":"2010-06-27T13:59:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T20:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=930"},"modified":"2010-06-27T14:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T21:02:00","slug":"forde-got-out-of-biblicism-you-can-too-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=930","title":{"rendered":"Forde got out of Biblicism; you can, too (5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201c<\/em>Law is to be used for political purposes, i.e., for taking care of people here on earth in as good, loving, and just manner as can be managed. <strong>Reason, i.e., critical investigation using the best available wisdom and analysis of the concrete human situation in given instances, is to be the arbiter in the political use of the law<\/strong>\u201d (Forde, \u201cThe Viability of Luther Today,\u201d <em>Word &amp;World<\/em> 7 [1987] 27).<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cTake Christ out of the Scriptures and what will you find left in them?<\/em>\u201d (<em>LW <\/em>33:26).<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn our deliberations, the wisdom of Scripture and the tradition cannot be cited as \u2018God\u2019s answer\u2019 to the matter, but neither ought that wisdom be summarily dismissed as irrelevant or outdated.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn1\"><strong>[1]<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"dot_clear.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"8\"><br \/><a href=\"#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a>Don Juel, \u201cHomosexuality and Church Tradition,\u201d <em>Word &amp; World<\/em> 10:2 (Spring 1990) 168-69.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLaw is to be used for political purposes, i.e., for taking care of people here on earth in as good, loving, and just manner as can be managed. Reason, i.e., critical investigation using the best available wisdom and analysis of the concrete human situation in given instances, is to be the arbiter in the political [&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-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","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=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":933,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}