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| Pope John the Malefactor |
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| Easter absolution sermon: plagiarized from Huber. |
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More on Huber and UOJ terminology:
"Learned men are at this day agreed that Huber swerved from the Lutheran doctrines, in words rather than meaning; for what the Lutherans maintain respecting the love of God as embracing the whole human race, and excluding no one absolutely from eternal salvation, this he would explain in a new manner and in new phraseology. But this age having learned from numerous examples, that new phraseology and new modes of explaining doctrines produced as lasting and as pernicious disturbance as new errors, urged Huber to adopt the old and universal method of teaching, in preference to his own. And when he declared that he could not do so, and his patrons here and there threatened to produce disturbance, he was compelled to relinquish his office, and go into exile." - Murdock's Mosheim, Cen. xvi. sec. iii. Part ii. chap. L
The modern history of Universalism, from the era of the Reformation to the present time (Volume v.1) (page 21 of 36)
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| Jack Kilcrease, Roman Catholic college instructor. |
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| Jack Cascione, President of the Jack Cascione Synod. |
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| Tim Glende, Tyrant. |
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| Jay Webber, Huber Professor of Universal Forgiveness, Little Sect on the Prairie. |
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| Stevie Kurtzahn, tireless opponent of Shrove Tuesday pancakes. |
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| Gurgle and Ski, who help me spell-check this blog. |
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| Richard Jungkuntz, godfather of radicalism, Seminex, the first Lutheran seminary to train homosexual and lesbian candidates. |
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| Paul McCain, salesman for the Calvinist ESV. |
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In case you're wondering about the "Murdock's Mosheim" connection, Johann Lorenz von Mosheim was a German Lutheran church historian, born at Lübeck around 1693. James Murdock translated Mosheim's Institutes of ecclesiastical history, ancient and modern, published in 1726, into English in 1832.
This is a footnote to the above paragraph:
"The writers on this controversy are mentioned by Christ Matth. Pfaff, Introductio in Histor. litterar. Theolog. P. ii. Lib. iii. p. 431 &c. [See, in particular, Godfr. Arnold's Kirchen-und Ketzerhistorie, Book xvi. ch. xxx. vol. i. p. 952 &c.
It must not be supposed, by the incautius (sic) reader, that Huber believed in the final salvation of all men. He used the words decree and election, as equivalent to gracious invitation. This he supposed, in the eternal counsels of God, extended to all men equally, and without distinction. But to make their calling and election sure, they must repent and believe; which, be supposed, the greater part of mankind will not do, and of course will be damned to all eternity. This he expressly stated in the confession of his faith, which he published in 1595. See Arnold, I. c. p. 953. and Schroeckh, Kirchengesch. seit der Reform. vol. iv. p. 664. Tr.]
And here's the link to that footnote in Institutes of ecclesiastical history, ancient and modern, Vol. III - The Reformation (edited, with additions, by Henry Soames, M.A. 1841):
http://books.google.com/books?id=4CgMAAAAIAAJ&q=Huber#v=snippet&q=Huber&f=false
The ultimate irony is that today in WELS' brand of Lutheranism those who hold to UOJ terminology claim to be holding to the "old and universal method of teaching" and the one who holds to the "new phraseology and new modes of explaining doctrines" such as "Justification is by faith alone" is "compelled to relinquish his office, and go into exile."
Though I am certainly flattered to be chosen for your hall of fame- don't you think Dr. Scaer would be more fitting than I? I mean, I'm small potatoes. I think he's probably the greatest living Lutheran theologian in North America at this point (Oswald Bayer would be the greatest in Germany). Just saying.
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