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A theologian of the cross says what a thing is. In modern parlance: a theologian of the cross calls a spade a spade. One who 'looks on all things through suffering and the cross' is constrained to speak the truth…it will see precisely that the cross and the resurrection itself is the only answer to that problem, not erasure or neglect.

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We are justified freely, for Christ's sake, by faith, without the exertion of our own strength, gaining of merit, or doing of works. To the age-old question, 'What shall I do to be saved?' the confessional answer is shocking: 'Nothing! Just be still; shut up and listen for once in your life to what God the Almighty, creator and redeemer, is saying to his world and to you in the death and resurrection of his Son! Listen and believe!'

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If you begin with the assumption of freedom, the preoccupation is always how to keep freedom in check, how to bind; But if you begin with the assumption of bondage, the preoccupation is always how to set out the word that frees.

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The preaching of Jesus Christ and him crucified on account of sinners is Gods desired way of being God.

Gerhard Forde

Gerhard Forde

Gerhard Forde

Born: September 10, 1927

Died: August 9, 2005 (aged 77)

Bio: Gerhard O. Forde was an American Lutheran theologian who wrote extensively on the Protestant Reformation and Lutheran Theology and tradition.

Known for:

On being a theologian of the Cross (1997)
Where God meets man (1972)
Theology is for Proclamation (1990)
The Captivation Of The Will (2005)

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