{"id":5552,"date":"2020-06-03T01:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/?p=5552"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:22:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:22:16","slug":"summer-2020-feature-silence-before-god-by-oswald-bayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/?p=5552","title":{"rendered":"Summer 2020 Feature:\u00a0&#8220;Silence before God&#8221;\u00a0by Oswald Bayer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will never forget the determination with which my wife, in an interview shortly before her death, answered the question: \u201cWhat<br>is it that makes the greatest impression on you in the Divine Service?\u201d She answered without hesitation: \u201cThe great stillness when<br>everyone is silent.\u201d Silentium is, in fact, a precious thing\u2014rising out of invoking God\u2019s aid in the preaching service in W\u00fcrttemberg,<br>where stillness serves as \u201cthe appeal to the Holy Spirit, both for those who preach and for those who hear the Word.\u201d1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/pdf\/34.2_bayer_on_silence.pdf\">CLICK HERE<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>to read the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will never forget the determination with which my wife, in an interview shortly before her death, answered the question: \u201cWhat<br \/>\nis it that makes the greatest impression on you in the Divine Service?\u201d She answered without hesitation: \u201cThe great stillness when<br \/>\neveryone is silent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bayer","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5552"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6068,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions\/6068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}