Gerhard Forde - The Captivation Of The Will (2005)

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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.

Gerhard Forde

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.

Gerhard Forde

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

Gerhard Forde