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On Being a Theologian of the Cross: Reflections on Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation, 1518 is unavailable, but you can change that!

While there is increasing interest in the “theology of the cross,” few people have specific knowledge of what makes it different from other kinds of theology. Gerhard O. Forde here provides an introduction to this theological perspective through an analysis of Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation of 1518, the classic text of the theology of the cross. The book first clarifies the difference between a...

culminating in cross and resurrection. The cross is the key to unlocking the entire story. Thus the cross story claims us. And we should make no mistake. Unless the cross story does claim us and become our story, we shall not escape the clutches of the glory story. It is not a matter of choice, a matter over which we deliberate. One of the decisive questions in the battle between a theology of glory and a theology of the cross will always be the question of the will. A theology of glory always leaves
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