%0 Journal Article
%T Law and Gospel or Gospel and Law? Karl Barth, Martin Luther and John Calvin
%A I. John Hesselink
%J Nederduitse Gereformeerde Teologiese Tydskrif
%D 2012
%I Stellenbosch University
%R 10.5952/53-1-119
%X For Calvin the order of the law-gospel relation may be put this way: Law of creation (natural law) ¨C revealed law (the law of Moses) ¨C the gospel ¨C the gracious law (third use) as a norm and guide for believers. The same outline would follow for Luther except that the third or positive use of the law plays a minor role in his thinking. On the surface Barth would seem to have more affinity with Calvin but the differences are significant because of Barth¡¯s rejection of any notion of the antithesis of law and gospel and his subsuming the law in all its functions under God¡¯s grace.
%K John Calvin
%K Karl Barth
%K Martin Luther
%K law and gospel
%K letter and Spirit
%U http://ngtt.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/119