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Calov’s detailed account of various derivations of the Latin religio | |||
Baier: Theology – Greek word composite of God and Word. | |||
Baier: Theology is a supernatural aptitude | |||
Pfeiffer: no doctrine outside of those based on Scripture | |||
true nature of theology, is based on Scripture | |||
3:245 f. | Dogmaticians call doctrine of justification the fundamental article. | ||
1:061 note e [sic?] | "fundamental doctrines" did not originate with the Church | ||
not every false doctrine which by its nature is destructive of the foundation of faith … "felicitous inconsistency" (“glückliche Inkonsequenz”) | |||
Baier: errors on non-fundamental articles – be “on our guard lest by embracing and teaching error we rashly sin” | |||
1:067 nota c | Open question: Is the soul of each individual created by God immediately (creationism) or mediately through the parents (traducianism)? | ||
1767 ed.: p 52 | Open questions: “... the many questions which Scripture leaves unanswered” | ||
The subject of the operation of theology is homo peccator (the sinner) in so far as he is to be led to eternal salvation | |||
Does theology constitute a system? | |||
Baier prefers “analytic method” over synthetic” method of theology | |||
Analytical method, however, proceeds from effect to cause or seeks to derive the whole from a particular part | |||
— | Baier is infected with the synergistic bias of his father-in-law Musaeus. The edition of Walther, St. Louis, 1879, is not a mere reprint of Baier's compend, but by the addition of quotations has been expanded to three volumes - - - - - - - In the cited quotations, not only Luther and the old theologians, but also the modern theologians of the 19th century, are abundantly cited, so that students are offered a source material which enables them to judge both the old and modern theology. Prof. Th. Bünger has supplied a index of subject and names on this edition of Walther’s, which has been worked with great diligence and great expertise. | ||
— | Baier discusses the last things: death, resurrection, the Judgment, and the destruction of the world immediately in connection with salvation | ||
The all-important point is that the theologian observe the principle of divine revelation, not the “faith” of the theologian (Objective!) |
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166n227 | — | General intro to Baier-Walther, defense against misunderstandings - “The dogmatic works of the 17th century, … rather do we observe in them already a pollution of the stream that gushed forth in crystal purity in the sixteenth century” | |
Luther: “A doctor of the Holy Scriptures no one can make for you but alone the Holy Ghost from heaven” | |||
"But after God had chosen to transmit His Word in writing, the Church of every age was strictly bound to the written Word of God" | |||
Consensus of Church not equal to Holy Scripture | |||
Roman pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, … infallibility… unalterable. | |||
“Inspiration itself, … , implies the impulse of executing the act of writing” | |||
R.F. Grau: “The boundaries between the divine and the human in Scripture cannot be determined mechanically and quantitatively” | |||
1:101 f. | Arguments against the inspiration of Holy Scripture: (1) different style in the various books in the Scripture | ||
(2) The appeal of the holy writers to their historical research | |||
1:102 f. | (4) alleged contradictions in Scripture and erroneous statements – Kahnis: “all the inaccurate quotations” from the Old Testament found in the New. | ||
1:102 f. | Kahnis: “solecisms and barbarisms of the Apostolic Scriptures, all faulty constructions of Paul” | ||
The brief personal letter to Philemon has also been used as an argument against the inspiration of Scripture | |||
— Baier’s 1690 ed. | The Church Fathers, too, taught the Verbal Inspiration | ||
Kahnis: “Among these Prophetic and Apostolic writings we find differences, from the viewpoint of both origin and content” | |||
Against the inspiration of Scripture Kahnis also advances this fact, that the Evangelists do not use the identical words in their report of the institution of the Lord's Supper. | |||
Kahnis: “This principle [of Scripture’s sole authority] is independent of the dogmaticians' doctrine of inspiration” | |||
This divine authority of Scripture (Christian certainty, or fides divina) is absolute – “worthy of credence on its own account” | |||
Fides humana, or ‘scientific certainty’, of the divine authority of Scripture. | |||
1:130 f. | Comparing the Holy Scriptures according to content and style with other "Bibles" in the world, e.g. the Koran. | ||
Christiantity “is an offense to the Jews and foolishness to the Greeks” | |||
Apologetics / fides humana: “more reasonable to grant the divinity of Scripture than to deny it” | |||
The Holy Ghost … testifies externally in the written Word and within the heart by working faith in the written Word that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures | |||
Unitarian – the writings of St. John have been singled out as being particularly obscure | |||
Augustine: “For hardly anything is derived from those obscure passages but what is stated elsewhere most clearly." | |||
External clarity of Scripture “is also the unanimous teaching of the dogmaticians” | |||
Neither the Jewish Church nor Christ recognized Apochrypha as canonical | |||
Eusebius in his Church History lists the homologoumena and the antilegomena. | |||
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A. Osiander, A. Hunnius, etc. agree with Chemnitz on canon of Scripture | |||
Gerhard’s weakness in speaking of second rank in canon of doctrine of Scripture. | |||
Baier: Men “cannot contradict [Scripture’s plain meaning] except against the protest of their conscience | |||
Gerhard quote on authority of Scripture against Pope. | |||
The Symbols are a … derived norm, because the doctrines confessed in our Symbols are taken from Scripture. | |||
The Symbols should not be called "inspired”. | |||
Heathen attempt to propitiate God by idol worship, sacrifices, asceticism, etc., and thus to silence their accusing consciences. | |||
Mohammedans / Koran: “Believe in God and in His messenger [Jesus], but say nothing of the Triad” | |||
Kahnis, [Subordinationist] speaks of the Son and the Holy Ghost as "God in the second and third sense of the word." | |||
Doctrine of Trinity, term of “person” | |||
The Filioque became one of the points which caused the schism between the Eastern and the Western Churches … Augustine taught it | |||
Athanasian Creed (see BookOfConcord, Trigl. 31 ff | |||
Distinction between the Son's generation and the Spirit's procession | |||
“our finite and imperfect reason cannot comprehend the infinite perfection of God” | |||
“Divine essence” – | |||
Positive attributes, such as life, knowledge, wisdom, holiness, righteousness, truth, power, love, goodness, grace, merey | |||
No carefully worded definition of God. | |||
The dream of modern theosophists of a spiritual body which was solidified in and by the creation of the world | |||
Special presence of God? – No | |||
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Gerhard: “God is really good, He alone is good, and He is the cause of all goodness” | |||
heathen pantheism, heathen dualism | |||
Only he knows God who knows that He created the world from nothing | |||
Hexaemeron - 6-Day Creation: forces us to accept the days as days of twenty-four hours – Luther over Augustine | |||
“Restitution theory” (or “Gap Theory”) of creation. | |||
According to the clear statement of Scripture there was light before sun, moon, and stars existed. | |||
6th Day – Before Fall, no decay, animals not against Man, no poisonous plants. | |||
Older Lutheran dogmaticians teach dichotomy of body and soul. | |||
There were no pre-Adamites | |||
The creatures were good because they were exactly as God desired them to be | |||
Creation the work of Trine God, not divided among Persons. | |||
Nor had there been any prevenient cause of creation accept solely the pleasure of God | |||
2:164 - 165 (pg # not cited in Pieper) | divine providence extends even to the minutest creatures (Page in Baier not mentioned in CDk or CD) | ||
The so-called “laws of nature” are not something which differs from God's will and operation | |||
“According to the law of divine providence, which rules all things, it is correctly said that all things happen of necessity; from the standpoint of man everything in human affairs is done freely and contingency." ” | |||
Angels clothed with some kind of ethereal body, a refined material fabric and the like, has no basis in Scripture | |||
Angels with assumed bodies really did eat | |||
Angels with assumed bodies | |||
The angels do not know all things | |||
"The immaterial soul fills no space, and still we can say where it is" | |||
Hofmann has the notion that God needs the angels "to make Himself present to His world”. | |||
We should rejoice and take comfort in their service and carefuly avoid grieving angels. | |||
Gen. 1:26-27: “Image” and “likeness” are synonyms | |||
Luther: “man as the noble creature who once bore the image of God and in whom God would recreate this image through faith in Christ” | |||
Baier's opinion that Eve had less knowledge of nature than Adam cannot be substantiated from Scripture | |||
Modern theology: nothing is sin, unless it be voluntary | |||
Heathen “show the work of the law written in their hearts…” | |||
— | 3:351 ff. | On Sunday | |
— | 3:358-366 | Usury (Wucher): Lehre und Wehre, Chemnitz, Luther | |
God punishes sins with sins, yet the cause of sin is the will of the wicked, that is, of the devil and ungodly men | |||
Original guilt … even some modern Lutherans insist that only that can he charged against man as a transgression which he has himself committed | |||
We may not and dare not measure the justice of God with a human yardstick. | |||
hereditary corruption – only known by Holy Scripture | |||
550n35 – ref. omitted but quote given | Not Scripture, but the decretal of Pius IX, 1854, took Mary, in the interest of Mariolatry, out of the category of sinners and ascribed to her an immaculate conception | ||
hereditary corruption – resides primarily in the soul, also body | |||
Why the eating of the forbidden fruit brought death to Adam and Eve – by creating, first and foremost, doubt of God's Word | |||
"This pestilence forms a part of the original corruption, which clings to us throughout our life on earth" | |||
The reasons which lead men to assert the freedom of will in spiritual matters - self-righteousness and self-conceit | |||
The truth of the Gospel is at stake when the weak brother insists that his error be acknowledged as the true doctrine. | |||
Erring conscience creates double jeopardy – sinning if he does and sinning if he doesn’t | |||
Omitted ref. | “A secretly harbored implacability may be a more grievous sin than a word or deed prompted by a sudden burst of passion” | ||
Arminians hold essentially the same view as the Catholics on “venial sins” deserving only temporal punishment. | |||
Chemnitz on partaking of sins of others |
The next listing, for Volume 2, will come in Part BWC2i after the translation of Volume 3 is completed.

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