The Law and the Gospel and Nomoclasts
I really love this statement in that it states my spiritual feelings, "They then reduce the gospel to the least common denominator, 'God is love,' in this way they banish from the moral discussion not only the natural law, but the divine (revealed) law as well." This one sentence has a ton of stuff packed into it. However, let me start with 'God is love.' by no means am I trying to say this is not so, nor is the author of the sentence, Rev. Langlais Ph.D. This quote comes from a article written by Rev. Langlais in response to an article written by Robert Benne who was writing in regard to the Evangelic Lutheran Church in America's (ELCA) moral ethical position on certain aspects of sexuality. This article and response are apropos for a segue into a discussion on the subject of the law and gospel. Benne was writing in regard to the loosening of the ELCA's moral position on human sexuality. Rev Langlais is postulating that the modern church has ab...