When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.
I haven't even read everything I wrote.
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
In dogmatics our question is: What are we to think and say?
Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Gratitude evokes grace like the voice and echo. Gratitude follows grace as thunder follows lightning.
Exactly halfway between exegesis and practical theology stands dogmatics.