Sin Boldly! Justifying Faith for Fragile and Broken Souls
Overview
Does our trust in God make a difference? Ted Peters says absolutely—by relieving our anxiety over self-justification and the need to scapegoat others. Sin Boldly! provides an experiential analysis of the contrast between self-justification and justification by God. We must pose the question: how can the gospel of grace provide transformation for both fragile and broken souls? This book proposes the following answer: trusting in the God of grace relieves anxiety and provides a divine vocation that transcends our moral universe with the promise of forgiveness, renewal, and resurrection.
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- Reexamines justifying and liberating faith
- Provides a clear Lutheran understanding of justification
- Examines how a proper understanding of grace relieves anxiety
- The Fragile Soul and Spiritual Duct Tape
- The Legalist within Us
- Our Love of Justice
- Justice and Our Moral Universe
- From Justice to Love
- Consciousness and Conscience
- Self-Justification
- Ethics for Bold Sinners
- Scapegoats and Broken Souls
- Faith as Belief
- Faith as Trust
- Faith as the Indwelling Presence of Christ
- The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification
- Gift
- Sanctification by Grace
- The Life of Beatitude
Sin Boldly! connects historical and theological learning with the burning issues of the contemporary world. With a deep commitment to Reformation thought, Ted Peters shows how today’s politics interacts with the broader dimensions of justice and love. This volume makes the original insights of Protestantism prominent in our current strive for a just society and good conscience.
—Risto Saarinen, University of Helsinki
Ted Peters brings the theological jewel of the Reformation out of hiding in academic and ecumenical enclaves into the bright light of a new arena . . . the purpose and promise of justifying faith for a new era of believers and searchers. This book will inform and inspire your preaching, teaching, and believing in the crucified and risen Christ who justifies our faith, and in so doing, justifies the faith of the whole Church.
—Claire S. Burkat, bishop, Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod, ELCA
This book, Sin Boldly!, written with a sense of humor, is full of theological insight and spiritual wisdom. In its empathetic approach, it speaks to the falsely untroubled soul and to the soul that—for good reasons—feels simply desperate. It brings in the author’s experiences from his life and faith journey and the accompanying voices of many contemporaries. At its very core, it harvests from deep biblical and Reformation insights.
—Michael Welker, professor emeritus of systematic theology, University of Heidelberg
With the tools of a careful scholar and the language of a creative writer, [Peters] sensitively unwraps the gift and makes it accessible to those who long for healing, reconciliation, and wholeness. Without sidestepping the substantive issues and tensions among interpreters of justification, Peters prompts and guides the reader into deeper comprehension and experience of divine grace.
—Kenneth L. Carder, Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams Professor Emeritus of the Practice of Christian Ministry, Duke Divinity School
Many are able to teach and write about theology, but few can tell a theological story as Ted Peters does in this book. . . . This story is what the Reformation codified as justification by grace through faith, and Peters masterfully inflects this treasure of the church in view of the overlapping horizons that constitute our postmodern public square.
—Guillermo Hansen, associate professor of systematic theology, Luther Seminary
Ted Peters invites us into an exploration of how self-justification, in all of its forms, simply wraps duct tape around our fragile souls, protecting us from reality and the gospel itself. . . . This is a book about the pastoral care of fragile and broken souls and their distinctive journeys. Ted Peters explores the depth of the human condition and power of the gospel to heal and save.
—Steven L. Ullestad, bishop, Northeastern Iowa Synod, ELCA
- Title: Sin Boldly!: Justifying Faith for Fragile and Broken Souls
- Author: Ted Peters
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Print Publication Date: 2015
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Pages: 272
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Justification (Christian theology); Theology, doctrinal
- ISBNs: 9781451487688, 9781451496734, 1451487681, 1451496737
- Resource ID: LLS:SINBOLDLY
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:00:29Z