Thursday, July 11, 2019

Let Us Pretend Justification by Faith Is Calvinism, Pietism, Arminianism
Heresy!



No UOJ here.
Excerpt from the introduction: (emphasis added)

6. Justification by faith.

This was the grand point on which the Reformation mainly hinged, the great center around which the whole work revolved; it was “first among the foremost” of the fundamental doctrines taught and insisted upon by the Master-spirit. He rescued it from the corruptions of Romanism, and having thus cleansed it from the human inventions thrown around it by popery, proclaimed it of anew in all its gospel simplicity and native sublimity. It is still cherished among Lutherans as the richest legacy of the Reformation, and as concentrating the quintessence of all scriptural truth. “Men cannot,” says the Confession, “be justified before God by their own strength, merit or works; but they obtain forgiveness and are justified by grace, for Christ’s sake, through faith.”

Why Are You A Lutheran? Or, A Series Of Dissertations, Explanatory Of The Doctrines, Government, Discipline, Liturgical Economy, Distinctive Traits, Etc., Of The Evangelical Lutheran Church In The United States 
by Benjamin Kurtz, 1843.
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Why did CPH have to put these on clearance?