Modern Theologians

With every bone in our bodies, we declare war on grace. We declare war on the gift.

The gelded Gospel is shiny and attractive and compelling, and we can perform the procedure in any number of ways.

I can only disbelieve you or believe you. If I disbelieve you, I go on being a miserable bore.

I’d like to offer a short reflection on the theme of “worldliness” as it appears in his later work and how that’s connected to an item of his Lutheran heritage: the theology of the cross.

The following is an excerpt from “A Year of Grace: Collected Sermons of Advent through Pentecost” written by Bo Giertz and translated by Bror Erickson (1517 Publishing, 2019).