29 November 2009

New Lutheran Quote of the Day

He [our Lord Jesus Christ] transposes our song of rejection and loss into His divine idiom, even as He also transposes His divine song of grace and acceptance into our human idiom. They do not, however, remain two separate songs that clash with each other. In Jesus they cohere; they combine to form a single song which speaks of a common experience of abandonment and acceptance, of suffering and celebration, of death and resurrection. The dissonances of earthly life have, as it were, been incorporated and resolved in His act of praise. -- John Kleinig, *What's the Use of Praising God?* p. 12

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