Concordia Theological Monthly
Article Title
Publication Date
10-1-1960
Document Type
Article
Keywords
calling of the disciples, discipleship, faith, grace
Submission Type
Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep
Abstract
There is probably no balder piece of narrative in all literature than Matthew's account of the calling of the first four disciples (4:18-22). There is not an adjective in it, and only one adverb, and the style is so completely nondramatic that at least one scholar has spoken of its "casualness." But this sparse and lean simplicity of narrative is anything but an indication that the event here recorded is of minor or subordinate importance, for this same Matthew records the birth and the resurrection of Jesus in subordinate clauses and devotes to the act of the crucifixion a single participle. There are events so great that man dare not wrap them in his rawer breath, incidents so incisive in the history of God and man that the bare force of their having occurred blocks out rhetoric.
Disciplines
Practical Theology
Scripture References in this Resource (separated by semi-colons)
Matthew 4:18-22; Matthew 1:1-4:16; Matthew 9:1-11; Matthew 19:16-21; Matthew 5:12; Galatians 1:15-17; 1 Corinthians 15:7-10; 1 Timothy 1:12-16; Ephesians 3:2-8; John 15:16; Hosea 11:1; Revelation 14:1-5; Leviticus 21:11-12num 6:7;
Submission Cost
Free
Submission Audience
Laity; Ministers; Scholars
Recommended Citation
Franzmann, Martin H.
(1960)
"Studies in Discipleship,"
Concordia Theological Monthly: Vol. 31, Article 70.
Available at:
https://scholar.csl.edu/ctm/vol31/iss1/70
