Via The Righteousness of Faith According to Luther In his teaching [on original sin] Luther is also very different from the teaching of the Catholic Church. Unfortunately, most of us are more familiar with the Catholic teaching than we are with the Protestant teaching of Luther. Nothing is more foolish than to think that the [...]
Via The Righteousness of Faith According to Luther For sin is not foreign to me; it is not random, clinging to my external appearance, like all sinful acts are and do. It is also not something that is beyond me, as in the tragic sense, underscoring my existence. Rather, sin is as intimate as the [...]
Via The Righteousness of Faith According to Luther The law should be able to teach a person to call upon the Holy Spirit who gives us a new heart. It should be able to take them out of themselves because this Pointing-Away-from-Myself is the task of the law, which is why it is called pedagogue [...]
Thursdays with Iwand Via The Righteousness of Faith According to Luther The “conditions of the law” are not fulfilled by mere deeds for God sees into the heart. God asks whether what we do is done out of love – pure, great, full love. Luther hates the confidence and security a person feels through his [...]
Via The Righteousness of Faith According to Luther Indeed, the law is to be regarded in the same light as works. “For through the law a hatred of the law is awakened, but through faith a love for the law is infused.” For with the love of God who loves us, the love of His [...]
Thursdays with Iwand Via The Righteousness of Faith According to Luther To speak of the righteousness of the sinner is not the exception and to speak of the righteousness of the righteous is not the rule. On the contrary, the God who is revealed in Christ makes the sinner righteous – that is the rule, [...]
Thursdays with Iwand Via Kreuz und Auferstehung The Cross is the utterly incommensurable factor in the revealtion of God. We have become far too used to it. We have surrounded the scandal of the cross with roses. We have made a theory of salvation out of it. But that is not the cross. That is [...]
Thursdays with Iwand Via The Righteousness of Faith according to Luther Since the good or evil of a work is of a quality that emanates from the relative good or evil of the person that performs it, the burning question of the Reformation is not “How are good works possible,” but is “How does a [...]
Thursdays with Iwand Via The Righteousness of Faith According to Luther Therefore, there is only one way to receive new life and that is through faith which is nothing less than pure receptivity; the acceptance of that which God promises in His Word to man. [Luther writes] “No work and no merit brings him the [...]
