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| Answer: - Both have degrees from Augustana College. Schmauk's is honorary, which in those days was a great honor. Today a honorary degree grows from a big donation. |
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5. The Lutheran Conception Of Salvation
Our trust is not salvation
by science, and therefore we are against rationalism
which sets man’s own thinking above the truth of God.
Our salvation is not
by religious ceremony, and therefore we are against ritualism,
which externalizes the service of God into a sacred and passing
show.
Our salvation is not
by tumultuous feeling, and therefore we are against emotionalism
which makes light of facts and history and centers all on
passing currents in the soul.
Our trust is not in
salvation by meditation, and therefore we are against mysticism
which raises the soul to God by an inner and poetic sight.
These are extremes
and one-sided. From them spring Swedenborgianism, spiritualism.
Christian Science, theosophy, occultism, and many of the
superficial religions of the moment.
Lutheranism
clings to God’s Written Word. Her motto is the Word of
God, the whole Word of God, and nothing but the Word of God, not
as a prescriptive letter, but as the power of God unto
salvation.
In the law and the
prophets, in the Gospels and Epistles, we find one mighty
principle, the man who can stand before God and live, the man
who is counted just in His sight, so to say the good man, is so
by faith only. He is saved by his confidence in that which he
finds in the written Word of God, by his trust in the blood of
Jesus Christ which cleanseth us from all sin.
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| Yale Divinity once had a large group of Lutheran professors. This is the main library for the entire school - Sterling. |
