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...

T21HE DOCTRINE OF JUSTIFICATION is intended to formulate an answer to the question: “What must I do to be saved?” Justification’s answer, “nothing,” is startling, and it reframes the question itself by asserting that God is not in the salvaging business. Instead, what God does in saving us is to recreate us, that is, to make us to be creatures who have faith at the core of their being, and humble and contrite hearts (Ps 51:10–12). God’s salvation is a recommitment to his original and continuing work

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