The Spirituality of the Cross

This is an excellent resource for anyone looking for "more" to life. I read it in college, and again shortly after my second child was born. Child #2 was an eater, and wanted to nurse multiple times through the night, and found myself falling asleep while nursing. One night I woke up, holding him, n......more

This really should be retitled "The Lutheran Way," to complement the similar books on Anglicanism and Eastern Orthodoxy. Of course you can read Luther's Freedom of a Christian for most of this straight from the source, but it's about as good an introduction as can be imagined. Here Veith offers the......more

Book Evaluation by Rev. Dan Krueger © May, 2013 The Spirituality of the Cross by Gene Edward Veith, Jr. Veith begins by evaluating the methods and pitfalls of three paths to God, or “three kinds of spiritual aspiration” (p. 17) observed by an Adolf Köberle (1898-1990). Wikipedia identifies Köberle......more

An excellent update of what is becoming a Lutheran classic. Veith makes confessional Lutheran theology very accessible to the reader.......more

Exquisite writing! A thorough but approachable treatise on the tenets of Lutheranism and how the theology of the cross and the doctrine of vocation help Lutherans hold vast paradoxical truths in tension with one another, for the sake of freedom in the Gospel. Particularly encouraging for me was Veit......more