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| Preface | |
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| Publisher's Note | |
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| The Word and Men | |
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| The Word is to be preached, and men are to listen | |
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| Theology's recovery of the Biblical proclamation | |
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| The purpose of this book in the theological task | |
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| The Escape from False Dilemmas | |
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| The congregation is in the Bible | |
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| Christ's conquest is for the congregation | |
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| 'Edification' builds up the congregation in Christ | |
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| The Bible as Message | |
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| The Bible's unity is found when it is preached | |
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| The Bible's theme is the conflict of God and the Devil | |
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| The Bible's realism | |
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| Christ the Lord of the Scriptures | |
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| The Scriptures proclaim a conflict and a victory | |
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| The Old and New Testaments are thus united | |
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| The death and the resurrection are inseparable | |
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| The Bible and Preaching | |
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| The centrality of preaching in the history of the world | |
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| The centrality of preaching in the Gospels | |
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| The Bible itself overflows into preaching | |
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| Conquered Man | |
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| The creation of man by the Word | |
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| The image of God restored by the picture of Christ | |
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| Preaching's conflict with sin, death and guilt | |
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| Creation and Redemption | |
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| Redemption: a critique of Pietism | |
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| Creation: a critique of Barthianism | |
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| The task of the preacher is to do battle | |
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| The Ministry of Reconciliation | |
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| The commission of the ministry | |
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| The authority of the ministry | |
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| The priest and the congregation | |
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| The Word and Faith | |
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| Christ and I are present in the Word | |
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| God and man are active in the Word | |
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| Faith in the Word is true human life | |
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| Death and Resurrection | |
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| Preaching must answer: did Christ rise? | |
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| The nature of preaching's answer | |
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| The significance of Christ's resurrection for our faith | |
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| Preaching the resurrection to the twentieth century | |
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| The Law and the Gospel | |
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| 'Law and grace' is 'death and resurrection' | |
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| The law and secular authority in Luther and today | |
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| Luther's doctrine of man under the law | |
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| Excursus: Emphasis on the outward in the New Testament and in Luther's thought | |
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| Baptism and the Lord's Supper | |
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| The place of baptism in the Gospel | |
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| The Lord's Supper: 'the real presence is heard' | |
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| Word and sacraments in the Church | |
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| Word and sacraments in human life | |
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| The Downfall of Satan | |
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| Conflict with Satan is vital to preaching | |
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| Preaching is the restoration of nature | |
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| The forgiveness of sins and the resurrection of the dead | |
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| The Communion of Saints | |
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| Christian fellowship is natural fellowship | |
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| The Christian mission involves an open Church | |
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| The boundaries of the Church cannot be determined | |
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| God Speaks--Man Listens | |
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| The Christian week and the Christian year | |
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| Preaching's exposition of the Christian year | |
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| Divisions of the text and of the congregation | |
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| Preaching's exposition of the Bible | |
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| The Divine and the Human | |
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| Luther's understanding of the communicatio idiomatum | |
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| The communicatio idiomatum in the Word | |
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| The necessary humanity of preaching and the Church | |
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| Our need of a theology of the Word | |
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| Index of names and subjects | |
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| Index of Biblical references | |