Justification Is for Preaching: Essays by Oswald Bayer, Gerhard O. Forde, and Others (Biblia.com)

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Although preachers often question their effectiveness, no task of the church is more important than proclamation. Only the gospel liberates sinners from guilt, despair, and death and grants them freedom, hope, and new life. Few have grasped this truth better than Martin Luther. This volume features contributions by contemporary theologians whose work is shaped by Luther's conviction that God's...

The fact that this captivity is one’s own fault leads Luther to discuss the condemning law that also kills. The law forces me to confront myself so that I am unable to move; it ties me down so that I cannot escape myself, being the one who has tied myself down by my own actions. Luther thanks God for the freedom from captivity that has occurred through Jesus Christ, using biblical terms such as freedom from slavery under the law, under sin, and under eternal death, the wages of sin. Fast bound in

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