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Confession and Absolution
- Lutheran Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 30, Number 1, Spring 2016
- pp. 28-42
- 10.1353/lut.2016.0003
- Article
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Abstract
The absolution is to be understood eschatologically. To paraphrase Gerhard Forde’s language, it is the verdict of the Last Day slipping out ahead of time. In the absolution, the voice of the law is silenced and peace with God is given in this word of promise which actually bestows what it declares. “For it is not the voice or word of the person speaking it, but it is the Word of God, who forgives sin” (Augsburg Confession 25).
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