Third Use of the Law (Tertius Usus Legis) (November 7, 2012)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer At the end of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Ethics, there is an analysis of the Lutheran symbolic literature (ie. the Book of Concord: the Augsburg Confession, Luther's Catechisms, etc.) Bonhoeffer, therein, discussed the Lutheran understand of the Law and asks whether there is one primary use of the Law (primus usus legis) or three? I'll summarize Bonhoeffer's three […]

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