Law, Religion and Grace
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Law, Religion and Grace
WHAT SHALL WE SAY THEN? THAT THE LAW ITSELF IS SIN?
GOD FORBID!
(Romans 7.7 a).
Barth discusses the MEANINGÂ OF RELIGION as it relates
to this verse in his extensive commentary
THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS:
“We have now reached the point where we are bound to
discuss the effective meaning and significance of
that last and noblest human possibility which encounters
us at the threshold and meeting-place of two worlds,
but which, nevertheless, remains itself on this
side of the abyss dividing sinners from those who are
under grace.
Here at this turning-point grace and law-religion-
the first invisibility and the last visible thing,
confront each other.
Grace is the freedom of … Continue Reading