About the Journal
ἡ γάρ ἀγάπη τοῦ Χριστοῦ συνέχει ὑμᾶς. (2 Cor. 5:14)
Promissio undertakes theology for the sake of informing and enabling the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. In order to do so, it operates within a zone in which constraint and freedom are neither separable nor confused.
The Bible constrains us because it is the one Word of God in which alone is found the freedom of the children of God.
The Christian tradition constrains us as the testimonies of our forebears in the faith who found this same freedom in the Bible.
The Lutheran Confessions constrain us as especially precious testimonies of the freedom the confessors found in the Bible.
Our contemporary context constrains us to proclaim the gospel anew, in such a way that it opens up to our contemporaries the glorious freedom of the children of God. Consequently, we do not simply repeat the theologies of the past; instead, we take up the task left to us by our predecessors and advance it for the sake of a contemporary proclamation.
But we always remember that our fallibility also constrains us. As theologians of the cross, we must never think we possess the truth and we must always be ready to change our minds. Theology is strictly in service to proclamation, which alone creates faith. So we are free to engage in the theological enterprise with passion, love, and humility.
“Promissio” expresses that the gospel is promise, which alone both creates and is received by faith, and thus places the distinction between law and gospel at the heart of this journal’s identity.
