Tuesdays with Forde Via A More Radical Gospel (pp. 75-81):

Tuesdays with Forde From On Being a Theologian of the Cross (pp. 17-19): The theology of the cross is the true and ultimate source of human optimism because it always presupposes the resurrection. We should always bear in mind in pondering texts like the Heidelberg Disputation that resurrection is always taken together with the cross. [...]

Tuesdays with Forde A selection from On Being a Theologian of the Cross (pp. 3-4): The word of the cross kills and makes alive. It crucifies the old being in anticipation of the resurrection of the new. “The cross alone is our theology,” Luther could say. And those oft-quoted words are to be taken literally. [...]

The second of our weekly feature columns, “Tuesdays with Forde,” begins today with this brief selection from On Being a Theologian of the Cross, by Gerhard O. Forde. One of the most important parts of Forde’s work on Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation is his insistence on framing the issue of the theology of glory vs. the [...]