A More Radical Gospel: Essays on Eschatology, Authority, Atonement, and Ecumenism (Biblia.com)

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Gerhard O. Forde has stood at the forefront of Lutheran thought for most of his career. This new collection of essays and sermons—many previously unpublished—makes Forde’s powerful theological vision more widely available. The book aptly captures Forde’s deep Lutheran commitment. Here he argues that the most important task of theology is to serve the proclamation of the gospel as discerned on...

continuously existing free choice can be cajoled, enticed, controlled, frightened, persuaded, impressed, etc., into making “the right choice.” But in a pluralized society, the will is unable to make such a choice and can only lapse into a skepticism that has to settle for relativism. Whatever is right for you is the right choice. In his debate with Erasmus, Luther saw that the attempt to combine the radical Pauline gospel with even the slightest hint of free choice could only lead to thoroughgoing

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