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Christian Character Formation: Lutheran Studies of the Law, Anthropology, Worship, and Virtue
Christian Character Formation: Lutheran Studies of the Law, Anthropology, Worship, and Virtue
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Ethical Formation in Christian Worship investigates worship and formation in view of Christian anthropology, particularly union with Christ. Traditions which value justification by faith wrestle to some degree with how to describe and encourage ethical formation when salvation and
righteousness are presented as gracious and complete. The dialectic of law and gospel has suggested to some that forgiveness and the advocacy of ethical norms contend with each other. By viewing justification and formation in light of Christ's righteousness which is both imputed and imparted, it is
more readily seen that forgiveness and ethics complement each other. In justification, God converts a person, by which he grants new character. Traditional Lutheran anthropology says that this regeneration grants a new nature in mystical union with Jesus Christ. By exploring the Finnish Luther
School led by Tuomo Mannermaa, Gifford A. Grobien explains how union with Christ imparts righteousness and the corresponding new character to the believer. Furthermore, as means of grace, the Word and sacraments are the means of establishing union with Christ and nurturing new character. Considering
Louis-Marie Chauvet's symbolic order and Bernd Wannenwetsch's understanding of worship as Christianity's unique form of life, Grobien argues that worship practices are the foundational and determinative context in which grace is offered and in which the distinctively Christian ethos supports
virtues consistent with Christian character. This understanding is also coordinated with Stanley Hauerwas's narrative ethics and the traditional Lutheran practice of ethical instruction by the Ten Commandments.
Author: Gifford A. Grobien
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 07/16/2019
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780198746195
righteousness are presented as gracious and complete. The dialectic of law and gospel has suggested to some that forgiveness and the advocacy of ethical norms contend with each other. By viewing justification and formation in light of Christ's righteousness which is both imputed and imparted, it is
more readily seen that forgiveness and ethics complement each other. In justification, God converts a person, by which he grants new character. Traditional Lutheran anthropology says that this regeneration grants a new nature in mystical union with Jesus Christ. By exploring the Finnish Luther
School led by Tuomo Mannermaa, Gifford A. Grobien explains how union with Christ imparts righteousness and the corresponding new character to the believer. Furthermore, as means of grace, the Word and sacraments are the means of establishing union with Christ and nurturing new character. Considering
Louis-Marie Chauvet's symbolic order and Bernd Wannenwetsch's understanding of worship as Christianity's unique form of life, Grobien argues that worship practices are the foundational and determinative context in which grace is offered and in which the distinctively Christian ethos supports
virtues consistent with Christian character. This understanding is also coordinated with Stanley Hauerwas's narrative ethics and the traditional Lutheran practice of ethical instruction by the Ten Commandments.
Author: Gifford A. Grobien
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 07/16/2019
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780198746195
About the Author
Gifford A. Grobien is Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at Concordia Theological Seminary.
