Eastside Church of the Cross

Our Worldview

 

Eastside Church of the Cross is a Church that seeks a Theology of the Cross.  Hence our name.  The following discussion may help in understanding what we mean by “Theology of the Cross”.

 

We have classified two basic ways of looking at the world and thinking about God.  The two ways are what we shall call two “theologies” (two ways of drawing conclusions about God).  Everyone has a theology.  Everyone has thoughts about God.  We are here proposing two theologians, two theologies and two worldviews.

 

The two theologies are contrasted well in Martin Luther’s 1518 Heidelberg Disputation (thesis 19-22 are listed below).  See Gerhard Forde’s, On Being a Theologian of the Cross, pp. 69-102 for the most compelling defense of the disputation.

 

19. That person does not deserve to be called a theologian who looks upon the invisible things of God as though they were clearly perceptible in those things which have actually happened.

 

20. He deserves to be called a theologian, however, who comprehends the visible and manifest things of God seen through suffering and the cross.

 

21. A theologian of glory calls evil good and good evil. A theologian of the cross calls the things what it actually is.

 

22. That wisdom which sees the invisible things of God in works as perceived by man is completely puffed up, blinded and hardened.

 

 

 

 

 

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