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Автор: Philip Ruge-Jones
Издательство: Ingram
Серия: Princeton Theological Monograph Series
Жанр произведения: Религия: прочее
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isbn: 9781630878108
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      Yet Althaus, though concerned about the systematic implications of this doctrine, does see its usefulness as a necessary part of proclamation. The concept of the bondage of the will safeguards the sovereignty of God against all human attempts at control. The divine assurance offered is always in danger of being converted into human boasting.

      While this warning against self-security is valid, in the end one wonders if Althaus has taken the importance of history seriously enough in his proposal. The attraction of Luther’s theology of the cross to the people of his day was not merely its resourcefulness as a generic critique of human pretension. Rather, they were drawn to Luther’s particular usage of this critique against the concrete pretensions of the church of his day. Moreover, the attraction to this critical function of the theology of the cross over and against the institutional church had to do with the complicity of the church in power dynamics that transcended strictly theological and ecclesial systems. The critique aimed at the church attacked not only its religious transgressions, but also the way its pretensions were concretely embodied in political, economic and social systems that robbed the people of life.

      Proclamation Theology of the Cross

      Ebeling

      Gerhard Ebeling has not only written pervasively on the theology of the cross, but has also dominated current Luther scholarship in general to such an extent that he has set its paradigm. Within the area of Luther interpretation, Ebeling’s ruts run deep, and many interpretative vehicles have traveled in the direction that he has established.

      Notice that making this distinction brings