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...

Instead, it looks to the “preached God,” a word of promise that actually imparts the reality of Christ and his grace. Words for Luther are not merely descriptors or directives and labels for feelings but can actually bring reality, a new reality, especially as the gospel word of promise which forgives, imputes, and frees.15 For Luther, grace does not perfect nature, elevating the finite to the infinite, but instead liberates nature, sets us free from our drive to control others, our lives, even our

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