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Law, Gospel, Antinomianism, Sodomy
Abstract: Word Alone responds to ELCA Sexuality Study Guide, part 1
Mark Chavez, writing for Word Alone about the new ELCA sexuality study guide (Free in Christ to Serve the Neighbor), accuses the guide of separating Law and Gospel and warns of its effects on the church. A few excerpts:
The study begins in the wrong place by insisting that the church's understanding of sexuality must be grounded in the Gospel...
The study's assertion that our understanding is grounded only in the Gospel is an antinomian move.
Ironically, the authors of this third study want it both ways. In the section on sexual violence the study wants to bring the law into the picture by calling for "justice" (clearly a matter of the law) but then in the same paragraph places limits on the law.
