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A History of the Theology of the Disciples of Christ (1907)
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A History of the Theology of the Disciples of Christ (1907)

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: in the awakening life of a new age. The outcome was Protestantism with its cardinal dogma?Justification by Faith. Protestant Theology. Protestant Theology is based on three principles: 1. The Material Principle?Justification by Faith. This is in antithesis to the Catholic doctrine of meritorious works. Salvation is through grace by faith. Faith is the true approach to God. It is all that is required. The moral life flows therefrom as the stream from its source. It is a matter of religious experience. It is the sense of sonship, of inner and immediate relation to God. 2. The Formal Principle?the Authority of the Holy Scriptures. The Roman Church held to a manifold literature?Scripture, the Fathers, creeds, lives of saints?all of which were traditionally authoritative. The Reformers limited the authority to the Holy Scriptures. The Bible, and the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants. 3. The Social Principle?The Universal Priesthood of all Believers. This is placed over against the claims of the hierarchy. There is to be no mediation. Each conscience is free before God. Thus, Protestantism was a return to the Christian Principle effected by a new religious experience in use of the Holy Scriptures. It developed in three periods: i. The First Generation. This was the Reformation proper. It embraced Luther, Melanchton, Zwingli, in their earlier lives. This early ground was receded from because of the extremes of the Anabaptists. The Reformers really joined the Catholics in a common opposition to this false subjectivism. They fell back on the Greek dogmas. These are the first articles of their creeds. Here Zwingli remained firmest on the original ground. This period was marked by but one principle?the Material, Justification by Faith. The pro…

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Kessinger Publishing
Country
United States
Date
1 June 2008
Pages
144
ISBN
9781436734264

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: in the awakening life of a new age. The outcome was Protestantism with its cardinal dogma?Justification by Faith. Protestant Theology. Protestant Theology is based on three principles: 1. The Material Principle?Justification by Faith. This is in antithesis to the Catholic doctrine of meritorious works. Salvation is through grace by faith. Faith is the true approach to God. It is all that is required. The moral life flows therefrom as the stream from its source. It is a matter of religious experience. It is the sense of sonship, of inner and immediate relation to God. 2. The Formal Principle?the Authority of the Holy Scriptures. The Roman Church held to a manifold literature?Scripture, the Fathers, creeds, lives of saints?all of which were traditionally authoritative. The Reformers limited the authority to the Holy Scriptures. The Bible, and the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants. 3. The Social Principle?The Universal Priesthood of all Believers. This is placed over against the claims of the hierarchy. There is to be no mediation. Each conscience is free before God. Thus, Protestantism was a return to the Christian Principle effected by a new religious experience in use of the Holy Scriptures. It developed in three periods: i. The First Generation. This was the Reformation proper. It embraced Luther, Melanchton, Zwingli, in their earlier lives. This early ground was receded from because of the extremes of the Anabaptists. The Reformers really joined the Catholics in a common opposition to this false subjectivism. They fell back on the Greek dogmas. These are the first articles of their creeds. Here Zwingli remained firmest on the original ground. This period was marked by but one principle?the Material, Justification by Faith. The pro…

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Kessinger Publishing
Country
United States
Date
1 June 2008
Pages
144
ISBN
9781436734264