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The Christian...is a spiritual beggar, who can do nothing except cry out for the salvation which is his in Christ.(P.91)

during Luther's exegesis of the Psalter- that of iustitia Dei, "the righteousness of God".The origins of the theology of the cross lie in Luther's initial difficulty in seeing how the idea of a righteous God could conceivable be good news for sinful man.(P.92)

後記:截至目前為止,讀Luther's Theology of the cross讓我感到吃力的地方,是作者在本書裡面,引用了許多第三語言,諸如Iudiciun,Dictata,caritas,dilectio.Quadriga,pactum,而對於相關詞彙解釋的中文資料,更是遍尋不著,看起來要了解Luther's Theology of the cross的內容,還得加把勁了!

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three particularly significant elements of later medieval thought..studia humanitatis..via moderna..schola Augustiniana moderna(P.27)

By the time of the Leipzig disputation of 1519,..between Luther and the humanist movement...1.their mutual rejection of scholasticism..2.their mutual desire to return to the early father of the church..3.their mutual desire to return to Holy Scripture..4.their mutual interest in rhetoric.(P.50-51)

現象與核心問題

每當家長談到青少年問題或同性戀或自殺防治問題的時候，作為家長的，所關注的是似乎是所呈現出來的問題的現象，專注的也是在於，能有什麼方法，可以快速的改善目前的現象問題，殊不知，問題現象的產生，並非一朝一夕的結果，現象背後所隱藏的核心關鍵問題，也許才應我們花時間精力去探討的，面對青少年問題的時候，家長能否也虛心的面對自己在管教，親子關係互動，甚至是家長本身自己性格上的盲點，且願意在專業的協助下做改變，個人覺得，這是家長在面對青少年問題時的另一個關鍵性的挑戰.

其實，現象背後的核心問題的探討，也應該成為在面對生活以及社會不同的議題層面時的思考習慣，如此，便可以避免陷於現象泥沼的掙扎，每當我們發現問題現象，在令人感到焦急心痛的時候，也可以開始習慣探索，這現象背後的核心問題是什麼？之後除了期待對方(這個對方對你而言可能是你的孩子，你的配偶，你的父母親，你的鄰居，你的社區，你所關心的社會議題，你的教會，你的會友，你的牧師....)的改變之外，是否也願意承認自己的盲點與不足並尋求自己的改變.

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尋找閱讀台灣，新加坡，美國華人教會及香港關於馬丁路德十架神學的中文論述過程中，發現大部份都曾引述或引用過麥葛福之Luther's Theology of the cross的內容，引發我想要完整讀這本書的動機，並寫下摘要：
The crucified God is not merely the foundation of the Christian faith, but is also the key to a proper understanding of the nature of God.(本書前言)

what man must do if he is to saved?(P.9)

How can a sinner enter into fellowship with a holy and righteous God? How can the troubled conscience find peace by discovering a gracious God?(p.12)

For Luther, Jesus Christ is the righteousness of God, revealing at one and the same time God's condemnation of sin and remedy for it. Through the creative power of the Holy Spirit and the hearing of the Word of the gospel, the sinner shares in the divine righteousness through faith.(P.21)