When Luther was demolished by the devil in his Anfechtungen, unable to escape wallowing around in his own subjectivity, he could at last only cry out, "I am baptized!" The word from without, the alien word, at the last may be all we have.
~Gerhard O. Forde, "Preaching the Sacraments" in The Preached God: Proclamation in Word and Sacrament, 104.














