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...Abolished the group's long-standing restriction on remarriage of the guilty party in divorce, decided to permit Lutheran pastors to remarry any divorced person who shows repentance. Marriage is a "lifelong, indissoluble union." declared the delegates, but "God in His love does accept the sinner...
...Mortal sin condemns the unshriven sinner to hell, venial sin "merits only temporal punishment" and, unless expiated on earth, is paid for only by the pains of purgatory...
...certain flowing grace, the rest of him does not. He looks like a bullfrog. The powerful throat seems to be preparing its organ tones; the wide, traplike mouth is about to open. Meanwhile, the brilliantly modeled eyes focus with disdain upon someone in the back row−whether a sinner or a sneezer. The portrait achieves a quality rare in most places and times, and almost unheard of in its own: immediacy...
...saint-sinner dichotomy in your article "The News from Nassau" is grossly oversimplified and indiscriminate. "Among people who understand the meaning of academic freedom, Princeton's uncompromising attitude won added respect," you say; and futher: "Among those unaware of the issue's significance, the 'University's hands-off policy' was seriously detrimental...
...Passion without the spirit of the gospel, he may well be tempted to point his finger and exclaim: 'Those Jews!' But if he reads it with the spirit of the gospel, he will strike his breast and say: 'It is I who am the sinner; it is we, all of us, who are the crucifiers of Jesus...