tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4164910523346972642.post6688620821062055406..comments2023-09-23T10:49:30.668-06:00Comments on Thoughts: The Foolishness of God / final installmentBrigittehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4164910523346972642.post-26438276165148561682012-01-17T13:06:12.812-07:002012-01-17T13:06:12.812-07:00You are right in the emphasis. We like to say tha...You are right in the emphasis. We like to say that the baptismal daily life is framed in terms of death and resurrection. We arise a new person in the morning contemplating God's great mercy toward us, and retire at the end with reflection on what has gone right and has gone wrong today and ask for forgiveness once more.<br /><br />One could live each moment or hour this way, but that could be tedious. So a daily rhythm is something that overlaps with our rising and retiring with the sun and the work day.Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4164910523346972642.post-18544085317796601632012-01-16T11:27:04.995-07:002012-01-16T11:27:04.995-07:00I'm happy with the distinction between law and...I'm happy with the distinction between law and gospel (grace)--incommensurate and yet Siamese twins, so to speak (as it were). Law crucifies (as it were) and Gospel resurrects (so to speak): the two complement and fulfill.Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4164910523346972642.post-83352574795372748192012-01-16T11:02:43.050-07:002012-01-16T11:02:43.050-07:00I mean just in terms of your style and interests.I mean just in terms of your style and interests.Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4164910523346972642.post-38109015151090100472012-01-16T11:02:11.361-07:002012-01-16T11:02:11.361-07:00Walther's Theses can be found here:
http://ww...Walther's Theses can be found here:<br /><br />http://www.mtio.com/articles/aissar49.htm<br /><br />If you think that's long, you should see the book. The new Reader's Edition has about 500 pages. Some of the best reading ever, though. Perhaps not for the poet. You might have to stick with Psalms and such.Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4164910523346972642.post-18555645630879738262012-01-16T10:41:56.443-07:002012-01-16T10:41:56.443-07:00"Personal pilgrim's progress at any point..."Personal pilgrim's progress at any point". (Interesting and nice alliteration.)<br /><br />I think we get a bit stressed out when we hear "progress." We always think of the parable of the publican and the pharisee. We never finish saying "Lord have mercy on me." <br /><br />As things happen in our conflicted heart simultaneously, we are always needing to find our security in another.<br /><br />Walther's "Distinction Between Law and Gospel" is mostly about pastoral care. What is it we say to another person, especially when trouble? And how does one preach properly? What is a confounding of law and gospel which will harm a soul?Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4164910523346972642.post-17043731597566715882012-01-16T04:25:07.872-07:002012-01-16T04:25:07.872-07:00And it seems to me, one might assess, estimate one...And it seems to me, one might assess, estimate one's personal pilgrim's progress at any point, hour, day in terms of one's law-to-gospel ratios going on & on.Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4164910523346972642.post-86460294881533307472012-01-15T14:53:12.783-07:002012-01-15T14:53:12.783-07:00And also in our hearts they are intertwined, thoug...And also in our hearts they are intertwined, though we need to understand the difference and cling to the Gospel for dear life.<br /><br />"Though in their essential nature (re ispa) these two are far apart, they are nonetheless most intimately joined in one and the same heart. Nothing is linked more closely than fear and confidence, Law and Gospel, sin and grace. For they are so connected that the one absorbs the other. Therefore there can be no mathematical combination that is like this."<br /><br />"We are so weak that we more readily follow the feeling of sin and death than this laughter and joy of the Gospel.<br /><br />To speak about myself: Redemption and the life given through Christ do not move my heart as deeply as one little word of the law or one thought of sin and of the judgment of God terrifies my heart. The reason is that the difference between the Law and the Gospel cannot be learned well enough in practice.... It happens naturally that the open jaws of hell terrify us more than the open heaven elates us, that one thought of our sin causes us more sadness than almost all the sermons about the merit of Christ bring us joy."<br /><br />"The Law is of no use whatever in the attainment of righteousness. correctly understood, it makes people desperate; not correctly understood, it makes them hypocritical. The Gospel, not correctly understood, makes people secure; otherwise it makes them godly. this is why the law has been given only for the sake of transgression (Gal.3:19), so that people might intensely long for Christ. Externally it serves as a political norm."<br /><br />(What Luther says Anthology, pp. 740-741)Brigittehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259491144770243688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4164910523346972642.post-88811749358562644752012-01-15T11:40:40.911-07:002012-01-15T11:40:40.911-07:00In other words--the crucifixion (law) on the one h...In other words--the crucifixion (law) on the one hand and on the other hand--resurrection (gospel). Paradox or description: how-it-is.Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09955256439849634940noreply@blogger.com