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God’s Two Words: Law and Gospel in the Lutheran and Reformed Traditions is unavailable, but you can change that!

The distinction between God’s law and God’s gospel lies at the core of the Lutheran and Reformed traditions—and has long been a point of controversy between them. God’s Two Words offers new contributions from ten key Lutheran and Reformed scholars on the theological significance of the law-gospel distinction. Following introductory chapters that define the concepts of law and gospel from each...

For Luther, this was the theological crux: “Anyone who can properly distinguish the gospel from the law may thank God and know that he is a theologian.”9 Translating this distinction from hermeneutics to homiletics, Luther writes: “This is the sermon which we should daily study.… In it both imprisonment and redemption, sin and forgiveness, wrath and grace, death and life are shown to us.… The first thing about sin and death is taught us by the law, the second about redemption, righteousness and life
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