Jesus the Law-Breaker

By Matthew Becker My friend, Dr. Edward Schroeder, often asks the question, “How does one commend good works without losing the gospel promise?”  I think that is a good question.  Nonetheless, as many others point out, we Lutheran Christians have not done a very good job of rightly and effectively joining the two aspects of…
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Murray’s Law, Life, and the Living God (Review Article)

By Matthew Becker Law, Life, and the Living God: The Third Use of the Law in Modern American Lutheranism.  By Scott R. Murray.  St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2002.  250 pages.  This book began as a dissertation at New Orleans Baptist Seminary.  The author, Scott R. Murray, is a 1983 graduate of Concordia Theological Seminary,…
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