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| Given this statement quoted by Robert Preus, should we assume that Calov repudiated his own clear statement about justification by faith? |
LPC has left a new comment on your post "Cannot Spell, Cannot Write, Cannot Grasp Justifica...":
That quote on Bellarmine and Calov is spurious. Marquart and Kilcrease are painting their own spin on the debate between Calov and Bellarmine.
What Calov was speaking about is the real-ness of the justification because... because... because of the Gospel because... because it is a Promise.
Even Marquart quotes Calov in his paper but Marquart puts his own spin on it...
[Justification] is the object of faith in that it is offered by God in the Gospel; it is the effect [of faith], to put it thus, in so far as grace having been apprehended by faith, the forgiveness of sins happens to us by that very act.
This is what Calov says, so says Marquart. This has to be checked for accurate quotation. Marquart said he took this from Calov's Commentary on the Apology of Augsburg.
At any rate a careful re-reading of Calov would reveal that since it is an offer, the justification of the person only happens upon faith. It does not thereby mean that the justification is already accomplished for the sinner before faith and it has already been conferred to him like what the UOJers think. Otherwise why would Calov call it an offer?
I hope people catch my sense.
LPC
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GJ - Jack Kilcrease appeals to Paul McCain because the CPH blogger is no more advanced in English than his instructor. Both write, spell, and argue at the high school level - not the Moline High of the 1960s, but current public high schools. I know that from teaching writing to over 1,000 incoming university students.
Moreover, both UOJ Enthusiasts argue at a junior high level.
I will stick with the Intrepids' two-source argument. We have the Scriptures and the Confessions. One is the revelation of the Holy Spirit, clear enough for any person. The other is the witness to that truth from the finest Biblical teachers of Christendom:
- Luther,
- Melanchthon,
- Chemnitz,
- Chytraeus, and
- Selnecker.
The only UOJ taught by a Lutheran before the Age of Pietism was from Samuel Huber, who was repudiated and fired by P. Leyser and the Wittenberg theologians.
