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Distinguishing Law and Gospel
No twentieth-century American understood Luther's law-gospel distinction better than Gerhard O. Forde, who was professor of theology at Luther Theolog...
Reflections on Luther's Heidelberg Disputation, 1518
Gerhard Forde examines the nature of the "theology of the cross, noting what makes it different from other kinds of theology. His starting point is a ...
'This book drags systematic theology out of the study, sticks it into the pulpit, onto the altar, and under the waters of baptism so that it proclaims...
Essays on Eschatology, Authority, Atonement, and Ecumenism
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 un...
Proclamation in Word and Sacrament
The Preached God' speaks directly to preachers, calling them to deliver the truths of forgiveness, life, and salvation through both word and sacrament...
A Matter of Death and Life
Justification by faith alone labels theologically the motor that energizes the Reformation. The dynamic behind the language can still mean renewal for...
Luther's Down-to-Earth Approach to the Gospel
This book about Luther's theology is written out of a twofold conviction: first, that many of our problems have arisen because we have not really unde...
Luther vs. Erasmus on Freedom and Bondage
The Captivation of the Will provocatively revisits a perennial topic of controversy: human free will. Highly esteemed Lutheran thinker Gerhard O. Ford...
Five Views of Sanctification
How can we grow closer to God? Is there a secret to spiritual life? Do we need a second blessing? Is sanctification instantaneous or is it a process? ...
Two Essays from Christian Dogmatics
Presented independently are the two loci by the author from Christian Dogmatics. In The Work of Christ, Forde examines "what God did in Jesus Christ" ...
An Interpretation of Its Historical Development
In this early work from "one of the defining theologians of American Lutheranism" (James Arne Nestingen, Dialog), Gerhard O. Forde provides a superlat...
Luther's Down-To-Earth Approach to the Gospel
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