Gravity and Grace: Reflections and ProvocationsThis newly revised edition provides insights from one of the leading Lutheran theologians of the twentieth century. The essays and reflections gathered in this volume provoke readers to think about and discuss topics such as risk and faith, nature and grace, the Word of God and genuine theology, real education, the beauty and meaning of language, necessary personal choices, aging, and social issues. Study questions are provided to encourage group discussion. |
Contents
Nature and Grace | 1 |
Faith Trust and Risk | 13 |
The Word of God | 30 |
Ministry The Stewardship of the Mystery | 37 |
Theology An Accumulation and a Doing | 48 |
Moral Discourse in a Nuclear Age | 57 |
Aging A Summing Up and a Letting Go | 68 |
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Page 7 - Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.
Page 18 - THE God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, the great. Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant ; Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight ; through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 74 - How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?" You foolish man! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body which is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.
Page 74 - If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.
Page 6 - God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.
Page 76 - For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God — not because of works, lest any man should boast.
Page 76 - What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the human heart conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him...
Page 15 - The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good tidings to the afflicted...
Page 50 - I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended to the dead.
Page 69 - The difficult we do at once, the impossible takes a little longer", this is the soul of 'American dynamism', the very spirit of the nation.