Avoiding Cheap Grace: Luther and the Need for Moral Despair

This article addresses two problems in the development of an adequate Lutheran ethics in our time: moral quietism in the public square and an overly narrow and individualistic moral vision. I argue that the construction of grace as “freedom” tends toward “cheap grace” and that grace needs, then, to...

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Main Author: Rehwaldt-Alexander, Jeremy (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2006
In: Dialog
Year: 2006, Volume: 45, Issue: 4, Pages: 376-381
Further subjects:B Grace
B moral despair
B Justification
B Luther
B Law And Gospel
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