The Christian Life: Cross or Glory?, by Steven A Hein
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The Christian Life: Cross or Glory?, by Steven A Hein
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This book offers a radically different perspective from that of many best-selling authors concerning how the Christian should measure and evaluate travel along God’s path of righteousness. It will endeavor to persuade the reader that by feeding regularly on the Gospel in the Preached Word and The Supper, God promises to have His way with the Christian and He alone will accomplish all that is needed for life in Him to be complete. He is not waiting or requiring you to do anything first (during or after) to provide you with every blessing of the Gospel.
The Christian Life: Cross or Glory?, by Steven A Hein- Amazon Sales Rank: #134365 in Books
- Brand: NRP Books
- Published on: 2015-06-18
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .45" w x 6.00" l, .59 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 196 pages
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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful. Weak On Sanctification! By Bror Erickson It’s an inside joke. The founders of New Reformation Press and the likes of Rod Rosenbladt were constantly being accused of being weak on sanctification by evangelicals and the reformed who tend to see sanctification as the result of the work of believing Christians, rather than the work of the Holy Spirit through the gospel as Luther explains it in the Small and Large Catechism especially where the Third Article of the Apostle’s Creed is expounded upon. So in good Lutheran fashion they made up T-Shirts boldly proclaiming that they were Weak On Sanctification. These shirts then became infamous among those in Lutheran and reformed circles suffering from irony deficiency.Well here, New Reformation Press, and the 1517 Legacy publish a book that is anything but Weak On Sanctification, but they locate it right where it is supposed to be located, in the gospel.Dr. Steven Hein who served as professor of theology for over twenty years at Concordia River Forest, and currently makes his home as a pastor and mentor to many in the Rocky Mountain District of the LCMS, draws on the works of such luminaries as Robert Farrar Capon, Gerhard Forde, Oswald Beyer, Oz Guinness to explain Luther’s “Theology of the Cross” in terms a layman can understand. It’s a phenomenal piece of work that will be good for any who are seeking to understand the ethos of the Lutheran faith and why it is so different from the average American experience of the Christian faith.In Cross or Glory, Dr. Hein let’s your conscience bathe in the balm of the gospel as he explains to you that your failure to have “Your Best Life Now” is quite the opposite from your failure to be a good and faithful Christian. As he explains the Christian life starting with our justification by grace through faith alone and the implications this has on our life of sanctification lived by faith rather than works, he shows how God uses such things as tentatio, or the tribulation Jesus promised the world would give us, to shape and form us into his image as we suffer the process of sanctification in the maturation of our faith. Using the “Botanical Model” prevalent throughout scripture and the confessions, “I am the vine and you are the branches” he shows how the good works of the Christian are not means of sanctification but the fruits of sanctification that blossom and ripen freely as the Christian lives out his life in this world doing what God has given him or her to do. In other words, the works aren’t to be found in “church work” the leading of bible studies, the over attendance of “church functions” or taking up your vacation time in the Christian equivalent of eco-tourism otherwise known as mission trips, but in faithfully carrying out your work as father or mother, or lawyer, stock broker or mechanic, whatever your career might be. This is the Lutheran doctrine of sanctification at its finest. Grounded in the word and sacraments and blossoming in grace as it prepares the Christian for the struggle in life that the Christian faith is for the believer tormented by his flesh, the devil and the world, the astute reader will realize that this doctrine is anything but weak.The last chapter in the book “Some Reflections on Heaven and Hell” follows the traditional model of systematics for treating eschatology, or the last things, last. Here Dr. Hein challenges the reader not to think of heaven and hell as places over there, but as dimensions that permeate our time and space. He does a wonderful job of explaining how this concept of time and eternity, as limited as the expression is by our time and space bound language, silences reformed protests to the Lutheran understanding of the sacraments.People are often at a loss when coming to Lutheranism to find a book helping them understand what they haven’t been brought up to believe. This book fills that gap. For new believers, college students wrestling with new questions, few books can come more highly recommended. It would also be great for any Christian book club, Bible Study, or as the basis for adult information classes.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Royal Beggars for Life! By David F. Sczepanski About fifteen years ago a fellow pastor recommended to some of us an audio series titled “Preaching the Theology of the Cross in Lent” by Dr. Steven Hein. We were deeply moved often surprised by what we heard, and soon invited Dr. Hein to come and teach us more. What we received over the next several years, in multiple visits, was not only an in-depth and exceptional introduction to Martin Luther’s cross theology, but a friendship that has influenced more than one generation of believers in our congregations. The young people in our church in Eureka, California, frequently quote what they have learned from their beloved “Dr. Hein” as he has come to know many of them personally. "The Christian Life: Cross or Glory?" captures much of what he taught among us these past fifteen years, helping us along the way in a profound shift to reformation theology. While we are not Lutheran we have come to deeply appreciate Luther’s important work in theology, thanks in great part to Dr. Hein. As we are anticipating another visit, our congregation is now reading and marking up his new book. We realize that we are not the same people who first heard these truths fifteen years ago. It is a word that is as old as the cross and yet ever fresh and new. As he wrote and often said to us in person: “We are now perfectly sufficient in the righteousness of Christ, yet we are always in need of more. Royal beggars for life” (169). Thank you, Steve.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Interesting Perspective on Sanctification By Daniel Pandolph blogging at danielpandolph . com The Christian Life: Cross or Glory? by Steven A. Hein presents a vision of the Christian life from a Lutheran perspective. Drawing heavily from Luther's theology of the cross, I found Hein's work compelling, paradoxical and difficult.Luther's thinking on the life of a Christian is centered on his theology of the cross versus theology of glory. Glory, for Luther, is in contradiction to the life of the cross and any theology that offers us glory n this earth is foolish. Rather, the life of the Christian must be found in the cross--in shame, disgrace and Christ's righteousness.Hein argues that our culture has been saturated with views of justification and sanctification that are not biblical. We are often teachers of "grace" when it comes to justification but teachers of "law" when it comes to sanctification. We must realize that law has no power to change us. Rather, we must preach law to ourselves to disrupt our pride and Gospel grace to remind ourselves where our rescue ultimately lies. Hein believes that this places the Christian in a passive position. We are passive when it comes to our salvation and our sanctification. Christ creates in us a desire to obey him and out of love we follow God.Whether or not you agree with Hein's work will probably be rooted in whether or not you agree with Luther since he doesn't stray far from his thinking. I will say that I am not totally persuaded by how passive we are in sanctification. Hein's thinking (Luther's thinking?) flirts dangerously close to antinomianism. It is document that guys like Tullian Tchividjian have drawn heavily from Luther. Those from a "Reformed" perspective find this thinking somewhat dangerous.I will also concede that, for me, there are serious doctrinal concerns in this work. I can't help but think, however, that some of the doctrinal imprecision that is found in this work lies in the fact that Hein's doesn't want to speak where scripture (or Luther) has not spoken. Again, as a Calvinist, I reject some thinking in this book. However, I can see where he is coming from as a Lutheran.Overall, I recommend this work. I enjoyed it while not being persuaded by it. I think it offers a nice (albeit different) perspective on sanctification--one needed in an agre of much confusion.
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