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By jason | March 20, 2008
On the centrality of the Cross, looking at Moltmann and Luther:
Luther’s theologica crucis, therefore, “is not a single chapter in theology, but the key signature for all Christian theology.” No theology is genuinely Christ which does not arise form the focus on the cross.
Statement against the Moral Influence Theory:
True love is purposive in its self-giving; it does not make random or reckless gestures. If you were to jump off the end of a pier and drown, or dash into a burning building and be burned to death, and if your self-sacrifice had no saving purpose, you would convince me of your folly, not your love. But if I were drowning in the sea or trapped in the burning building, and it was in attempting to rescue me that you lost your life, then I would indeed see love, not folly, in your action. In the same way, the death of Jesus on the cross cannot be seen as a demonstration of love in itself, but only if he gave his life in order to rescue ours. His death must be seen to have had an objective before it can have an appeal.
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