The Gospel is temporary, but the law is eternal and is restored precisely through the Gospel. Freedom from the law consists, then, not in the fact th….

Mystery is the lifeblood of dogmatics..

Faith and repentance are as much benefits of the covenant of grace as justification . . . . faith and repentance themselves . . . . are components of….

God the Father has reconciled His created but fallen world through the death of His Son, and renews it into a Kingdom of God by His Spirit..

Gratitude & joy drove them to do good works before the thought that they had to do them even crossed their mind..

The essence of Christianity consists therein: that the creation of the Father, destroyed by sin, is again restored in the death of the Son of God and….

A theologian is a person who makes bold to speak about God because he speaks out of God and through God. To profess theology is to do holy work. It i….

God saves by causing himself to be known and enjoyed in Christ..

One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted.

Whoever isolates himself from the church, i.e., from Christianity as a whole, from the history of dogma in its entirety, loses the truth of the Chris….

In this simple but profound psychological way Scripture tells the history of the fall and of the origin of sin. In this way sin continues still to co….

We can shed some light on the possibility of the fall, but the transition to the actuality of it remains shrouded in darkness. Scripture makes not so….

It is completely incomprehensible to us how God can reveal himself and to some extent make himself known in created beings: eternity in time, immensi….