Cross in Tensions. Philip Ruge-Jones
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Название: Cross in Tensions

Автор: Philip Ruge-Jones

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Религия: прочее

Серия: Princeton Theological Monograph Series

isbn: 9781630878108

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СКАЧАТЬ necessary to bring the theologian “to a real existential crisis.”82 Forde emphasizes that the Disputation speaks here not of “theologies” but of “theologians.” The question in play is the existential state of the theologian in the presence of God.

      Proclamation, as for Ebeling, is what ultimately matters in the theology of the cross.

      The concerns raised at the end of the section on Ebeling are equally fitting in response to Forde. If anything, Forde’s approach is even less historical. Forde’s reading of Luther has God standing over and against all of humanity in an undifferentiated way. All alike are prone to the same temptations of glory and power. This is Forde’s appraisal of how the theology of the cross functioned in Luther’s day, but Forde carries it forward to today. Luther speaks across centuries of history directly to us. Time and time again, generic humanity is gathered up into the homogeneous “we.”

      Sacramental Theology of the Cross

      Peura

      To begin to understand Luther, Peura looks at his Psalm commentaries from 1513 to 1516. From this period, Peura articulates Luther’s understanding of the deification of the Christian. Here Luther’s dependence on late scholastic theology comes to the fore. Next, Peura looks at how this theme is upheld in relation to the themes of justification and God’s love as they are articulate by Luther in his 1515 and 1516 commentaries on Romans. Finally, Peura comes to our theme, considering the theology of the cross in light of deification. His basis for that study are texts from 1517 and 1519. While the third part of his study will be of most interest to us, we will need to retrace the steps his steps through deification since that dramatically shapes his own understanding of the theology of the cross. Without this background, it is difficult to comprehend how he could end up at such a different place than Forde and Ebeling.