Table of Contents
Abbreviations xiii
Foreword James Arne Nestingen xiv
Introduction 1
Forde's Life Nicholas Hopman 2
Forde's Works: A Guide to The Essential Forde Mark C. Mattes 5
"Forde Lives!" Steven D. Paulson 18
Part I The Law-Gospel Distinction in Modern Lutheranism
The Position of Orthodoxy 37
The Critical Problem: The Place of Law in the Theo-logical System 45
Theodosius Harnack 53
Gospel as the End of the Law 59
Part II Death and Resurrection
The Lutheran View of Sanctification 83
Two Ways of Being a Theologian 101
Part III The Bondage of the Will
The Argument about God 111
Luther and Erasmus 124
Heidelberg Disputation: Thesis 15 127
Part IV Good Works
Heidelberg Disputation: Theses 26-28 133
Luther's "Ethics" 139
Part V Controversies Concerning the Law
Law and Sexual Behavior 149
The Meaning of Satis Est 167
Lex semper accusat? Nineteenth-Century Roots of Our 178
Current Dilemma
Part VI Theological Method
Systematic Theology Is for Proclamation 197
The Preached God 205
Heidelberg Disputation, Theses 19-21 228
Part VII The Ministry
Speaking the Gospel Today 245
Something to Believe: A Theological Perspective on Infant Baptism 257
The Lord's Supper as the Testament of Jesus 271
Bibliographies 277
Index 285