SCHOOLING FOR LIFE

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SCHOOLING FOR LIFE

ACCENTS in Gospel teaching

“Christians are at the same time both sinners and righteous.”

“They are perfectly whole in hope,while they are in fact sinners.”

ACCENT 1

Simultaneously SINNERS and SAINTS

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Other oriented

“Christians should devote all works to the welfare of others.”

“A Christian lives not in himself,

He lives in Christ through faith, in his neighbor

through love.”

ACCENT 2

“God’s lovedoes not find its object but rather creates it!”

“Human love starts with the object.”

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Love in Law and GospeL

ACCENT 3

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Unio mystica

“Faith unites the soul with Christas a bride is

united with her bridegroom.”

“Christ marries this poor wicked harlot, redeems her from all her evil,

and adorns her with all his goodness.”

ACCENT 4

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Scripture alone

“The Word of God shall establish articles of faith and no one

else, not even an angel.”

“God will not be seen, known, or comprehended except through his Word alone.”

ACCENT 5

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Xristus Crucified

“One who perceives what is visible of God [God’s backside] by beholding the sufferings and the

crossis rightly called a theologian!”

“Take Christ from the Scriptures and what more will

you find in them?”

ACCENT 6

“We live by the righteousness of God as God’s gift, namely by faith.”

“The righteousness of God is revealed by the gospel, the

passive righteousness with which the merciful God justifies us by faith .”

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Righteousness of God

ACCENT 7

“Our nature is deeply

curved in upon itself because of original sin!”

“Scripture describes us as so turned in on ourselves

that we use not only physical but even spiritual goods for our own purposes

and in all things seek only ourselves.” Is. 2:9-22

Incurvatus in se

ACCENT 8

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“Next to the Word of God, the noble art

of music isthe greatest treasure in the world!”

“Music, a wonderful creation and gift of God, comforts the

heart, especially when people sing along

with fine devotion.”

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Singing God’s Word

ACCENT 9

“We have to do with God as clothed and displayed in his

Word!”

“Distinguish between God preached and God hidden, between the Word of God and God himself. Every institution, where the Word of God is not taught regularly,

must come to naught. ”

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Teaching God’s Word

ACCENT 10

“God and his Scriptures are two things,

just as the Creator and his creation are two

things!”

“In the m mystery of the incarnation, Christ

remains hidden in his humanity, … as in the

sacrament of the Eucharist where he is most hidden.”

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Under form of bread/wine

ACCENT 11

“Take Christ out of the Scriptures, and what do you find

left in them!”

“You need Christ,… If you believe in him, you may

through this faith become a new man in so far as

your sins are forgiven, and you are

justified by the merits of another, namely, of Christ alone.”

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Solus Christus

ACCENT 12