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The Moral Proverbs of Santob de Carrión: Jewish Wisdom in Christian Spain.T. A. Perry

within its relatively more sober boundaries? Part of the answer lies, I believe, in the tendency of eschatological speculation to become an end in itself. In Luther and his students such speculation served the more fundamental concerns of his message, the apt proclamation of both law and gospel. When it tended to produce a message which replaced the gospel of forgiveness of sins in Jesus Christ at the heart of preaching, then those who stood closer to Luther's own concerns sloughed off the apocalyptic baggage. My only quibble with Barnes is over his choice of "prophecy" and "gnosis" to describe the major elements of Lutheran apocalyptic thinking. "Prophecy" seems too slippery, for it includes both the basic Biblical definition of "proclamation" and the more popular definition of "prediction." The former flows into the latter, to be sure, but the relative shift from emphasis more on the former in Luther to more on the latter three generations later represents a significant shift in Lutheran use of apocalyptic themes. "Gnosis" seems even more problematic to me because of its inevitable association with ancient gnosticism. Lutheran theology was most definitely determined by a deep dualism, but one which stops far short of gnosticism, and the term "gnosis" could obscure that fact. The phenomena which lie beneath these terms are effectively analyzed by Barnes; the terms he has chosen muddy the waters a bit.