...the Blessed will see their friends and relations among the damned as often as they like but without the least of compassion.
GerhardIf you begin with the assumption of freedom, the preoccupation is always how to keep freedom in check, how to bind; But if you begin with the assumption of bondage, the preoccupation is always how to set out the word that frees.
GerhardA theologian of the cross says what a thing is. In modern parlance: a theologian of the cross calls a spade a spade. One who โlooks on all things through suffering and the crossโ is constrained to speak the truthโฆit will see precisely that the cross and the resurrection itself is the only answer to that problem, not erasure or neglect.
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