Law, Life, and the Living God

by Murray, Scott R.

• ISBN13: 9780570042891
• ISBN10: 0570042895
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Concordia Pub House

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	7	(2)
Foreword	9	(2)
Preface	11	(2)
Introduction	13	(28)
Law and Gospel: Centrality and Tensions	13	(1)
The Problem	14	(1)
Why Study the Third Use of the Law?	14	(1)
Situating Law and Gospel in Lutheran Theology	15	(6)
How the Third Use of the Law Became an Issue	21	(4)
Some Historical Antecedents	25	(16)
American Lutheranism 1940-60: A Period of Rediscovery	41	(50)
Setting the Contemporary Theological Context	41	(4)
Impact on American Lutheran Theology (Valparaiso Theologians, LCA and ALC Theologians, The Old Missourians)	45	(28)
Interpretation and Criticism	73	(18)
American Lutheranism 1961-76: A Period of Extremes	91	(76)
Introduction	91	(1)
The Valparaiso Theologians	91	(23)
LCA and ALC Theologians	114	(18)
The Missourians	132	(12)
Summary and Conclusions	144	(23)
American Lutheranism 1977-98: A Period of Concern for Balance	167	(46)
ELCA Theologians	168	(18)
The Missourians	186	(14)
Summary and Conclusions	200	(13)
How Has the Third Use Fared?	213	(8)
Luther Renaissance	213	(1)
European Theology	214	(1)
Theological Hermeneutics	215	(1)
Theological Method and Church Authority	216	(1)
Third Use and Gospel Reductionism	216	(1)
Modern Antinomianism and the Third Use	217	(1)
The Simul	217	(1)
The Semper	217	(1)
Quo Vadis?	218	(1)
Conclusion	218	(3)
Bibliography	221	(26)
Index of Names	247	(2)
Index of Subjects	249