"Theology can be a coat of mail which crushes us and in which we freeze to death. It can also be - this is in fact its purpose! - the conscience of the congregation of Christ, its compass and with it all a praise-song of ideas. Which of the two it is depends upon the... Continue Reading →
God’s Silence
Helmut Thielicke said of the Cross of Jesus Christ, where silence and salvation met: "There the night of darkness dispatched its last troops against God’s Son; the demons were released and the ugliest instincts since Adam unchained. But God said nothing about it. Only a dying man cried aloud in that silence and asked why... Continue Reading →