Thursdays with Iwand Via The Righteousness of Faith According to Luther, p. 39 If we ask Luther what he understands by the Word of God he answers: “The word of God is both law and gospel.” (LW 33:105) Whoever does not make this distinction is denied the ability to attempt a correct interpretation of Scripture. [...]
Thursdays with Iwand Via The Righteousness of Faith According to Luther” (pg. 35-6) People who love God with the self-serving loving of concupiscentia spiritualis are horrified at the thought of predestination. They think it is cruel and inhuman that God has mercy on those upon whom he chooses to have mercy and rejects those he [...]
Thursdays with Iwand Summarizing his own understanding of the Word of God and faith, Iwand writes: Faith, however, means: he shall be Lord. Thus God finds the person who even now, in the invisibleness of not-seeing, yet believing, takes him in faith to be the all-embracing fullneas of reality. Whoever believes in God believes in [...]
Thursdays with Iwand Excerpts from “Faith & Knowledge” (1962) The ‘homo-religiosus’ is precisely the person under the law. This is the new ‘post-Schleiermacher-knowledge’ which makes theology today the most exciting and important matter. If that be true, what is going to happen to atheism, what to the church, what to science?… Jesus Christ alone stands [...]
Thursdays with Iwand Via Hans Iwand, Glaubensgerechtigkeit nach Luthers Lehre, p. 193 Jesus Christ alone stands among us all as true human being – this is the significance of his incarnation… Ergo, the incarnation of Christ is the very opposite of the deification of Adam. The crucified, ‘as true human being,’ stands in a world [...]
Thursdays with Iwand Via “Kreuz und Auferstehung,” Klappert, pg. 288 The cross is the utterly incommensurable factor in the revelation 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 [...]
Thursdays with Iwand Hans Iwand, a sermon on James 2:14-26 Is there anyone among us who doesn’t want to get up in protest and answer this text with a simple, ‘No!’? The last sentence alone does us in: ‘So faith apart from work is dead.’ If it has no works! Or have we become so [...]
Note: we have decided to discontinue Athena Thursday, in favor of adding a neglected theological voice to the weekly chorus. Thursdays will now feature selections from Hans Joachim Iwand (1899-1960). Thursdays with Iwand In 1953 Hans Iwand, despite his long and filial friendship with Karl Barth, remained critical of the latter regarding his transposition of [...]
