"as Luther wields the language, 'the law' is not coterminous with ethics or 'the gospel' with doctrine as something other than ethics; these supposed equivalencies were invented very recently, to accommodate late-modern America's antinomianism impulse by making it appear that ethical decisions cannot impact doctrinal faithfulness."Robert W. Jenson, letter to the Rt. Rev. _____ (an ELCA bishop), 20 September 2004, as reproduced here. I have not yet been able to confirm (though I do not doubt) the authenticity or the accuracy of this reproduction.
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