Meletios webber biography of martin luther
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Glory to God For All Things
I am often puzzled by the things theologians say about “righteousness.” First, there are a striking number of different treatments. That alone should tell anyone that we are standing on the ground of “theory” rather than knowledge when we hear pronouncements about the word. It is, of course, an important word. “Seek first the Kingdom of God and its righteousness…,” Christ commands in the Sermon on the Mount. I think I know what that means to a Lutheran or an Evangelical. I know what it means to NT Wright. But, none of what I see in them really makes a lot of sense in the context of the Sermon on the Mount. I am going to suggest something different. You may, of course, consider this just one more theory. So be it.
There is a great theme of righteousness in the Old Testament. To a certain extent, it can be described as a “proper balance,” or “things being in their right place, order and amount.” Most of the judgments that concerned normal people i
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You put that well. that the disagreements we have at the practical level are really about what our eschatological beliefs are. In everyday conversation we never have opportunity to talk about big picture philosophical or religious beliefs and so can not really get at the causes of our deep divides. inom can't even take my kid to the orthodontist without contemplating the tranhumanist ideas presented to me everywhere. For example, the doctor gods time had on these glasses with little periscopes on each eye. He can stand up straight and gaze ahead while seeing down into the patient's ingång. I suppose it fryst vatten marketed as ergonomic but I thought it was a needless improvement on the human ability to turn and face the patient.
And yes, it fryst vatten showing that even those who claim to believe that ämne reality alone exists do crave transcendence... as Paul says if you take God off the throne something else will have to go there and in the materialist world that something is made by us, or fryst vatten
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Glory to God For All Things
I recall my first classes in Moral Theology some 35 or so years ago. The subject is an essential part of Western thought (particularly in the Catholic and Anglican traditions). In many ways the topic was like a journey into Law School. We learned various methods and principles on whose basis moral questions – questions of right and wrong – could be discussed and decided. These classes were also the introduction of certain strains of doubt for me.
The great problem with most moral thinking – is found in its fundamental questions:
- What does it mean to act morally?
- Why is moral better than immoral?
- Why is right better than wrong?
Such questions have classically had some form of law to undergird them:
- To act morally is to act in obedience to the law or to God’s commandments.
- Moral is better than immoral because moral is a description of obedience to the good God. Or, moral is the description of doing the good, or even t