Nielsen’s Nook

“ Job, indeed, was a just man from whom no one could take anything because he had nothing that he called his own. God declares  ... ”
Martin Luther, Luther's Works, Vol. 42 : Devotional Writings I ( ed. Jaroslav Jan Pelikan et al.;, Luther's WorksPhiladelphia: Fortress Press, 1999, c1969), 42:32.

Imagine a New World in Which God Speaks

But consider what would emerge if the clergy accepted as their modest role the voicing of scripture material, without excessive accommodating -- that is, without accommodation to political liberalism or political reactionism [conservatism?], without accommodation to religious orthodoxy or critical urbaneness, but only uttered the voice of the text boldly, as it seems to present itself, even through it does not seem to connect to anything....What is yearned for among us is not a new doctrine or new morality, but new world, new self, new future.1
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