HC

Question 1

1517

Answer 1

Luther posts his 95 Theses

Question 2

5th Lateran Council

Answer 2

Ends in 1517 - Pope Julius - Personal renewal - Order your own life to the doing of god’s will and the bringing of benefit to their neighbor

Question 3

Luther’s Argument

Answer 3

The only response to a failed piety of achievement was not its intensification but its abolition.

Question 4

Savonarola

Answer 4

d. 1498 Italian Dominican monk and struct ascetic. He was exccommunicated in 1497 and burned at the stake in 1498

Question 5

THEOLOGY OF THE CROSS

PT. 1

Answer 5

God has revealed himself on the cross and it’s the task of the theologian to examine God in this way. Philosopher’s cannot come to this understanding

Question 6

THEOLOGY OF THE CROSS

PT. 2

Answer 6

The revelation can only be understood by faith. Not by reason.

Question 7

THEOLOGY OF THE CROSS

PT. 3

Answer 7

Rather than by the created order. Natural theology tells of nothing of the nature of God. He did not argue with all of “Natural” theology.

Question 8

THEOLOGY OF THE CROSS

PT. 4

Answer 8

Faith is necessary to understand God

Question 9

THEOLOGY OF THE CROSS

PT. 5

Answer 9

Not only that one knows God through suffering, but that God makes God’s self known through Christ’s suffering.

Question 10

Nominalist in reaction to Semi-Pelagianist

Answer 10

• God has established a covenant and it will be done in this way.
• God will reveal himself.
• Humans don’t earn salvation, but God takes the thing you will do an accept it.

Question 11

Condine v. Congruous

Answer 11

Condign - Worthy merits. By our own efforts we cannot perform condign works.
Congruent - We do congruent works and God accepts them as condign.

Question 12

Justification for Luther

5 Points

Answer 12

• Justified By faith alone apart from any works
• Justifying faith is not intellectual assent, but trust.
• Sinner justified on basis of God’s righteousness. Simultaneously saint and sinner.
• Since justification is a work of salvation rather than human achievement, the believer can be assured of salvation.

Question 13

Contarini & Luther

Similarities

Answer 13

Both agreed that justification came through faith.

The Church was in need of reformation.

Question 14

Contarini & Luther

Diffierences

Answer 14

C - Salvation came through sacraments i.e. works within the church.
C - Reformation will come from personal piety of Bishops and trickle down.
L - Salvation comes only through God.
L - Reformation will come through a change in doctrine.

Question 15

Colloquy of Regensburg

Answer 15

1541 - Contarini is a key involved figure in trying to reach an agreement with Protestants on the issue of justification.

Question 16

Diet of Worms 1521

Answer 16

• Luther is summoned to the Diet(parliament) of Worms
• Luther assembled before all the princes and leaders of Germany and refuses to recant
• Luther is moving away from the authority of the church and toward an “Authority of Scripture”

Question 17

Anfechtungen

Answer 17

Bouts of spiritual anxiety

Question 18

Luther’s Notion of Christian Freedom

Answer 18

You can’t make liberty into a law.

- Destroying idols makes an idol out of the law.

Question 19

Luther’s & Sola Scriptura

Answer 19

Did not believe that scripture gave a clear explanation of all doctrinal controversies.

Question 20

Luther & The Epistle of James

Answer 20

An Epistle of Straw

Question 21

Strengths of Luther’s approach to Scripture

Answer 21

• Simplifies scripture so that everyone can understand it.

- All scripture points to Christ.

Question 22

Weaknesses of Luther’s approach to Scripture

Answer 22

• Printed word on the page are not the words of God.

Question 23

Word of God

Luther

Answer 23

Has both the character of judgment(law) and grace(gospel).

One should always ask when interpreting scripture is this law or gospel?

Question 24

1 st Commandment (Luther)

Answer 24

Contains all the others, but also contains the promise of God.
It’s both law and gospel.

Question 25

The Babylonian Captivity of the Church

Answer 25

What makes a sacrament?

1. Promise of divine grace
2. Sacrament must have a visible sign
3. Instituted by Christ
4. Effectual nature requires faith on the part of the recipient

Question 26

Sola Scriptura

Luther

Answer 26

By grace alone,
Faith alone.
Christ alone
Scripture should not be understood as meaning anything else but that people are nothing and Christ alone is everything.

Question 27

Luther & Zwingli

Similarities

Answer 27

Faith has to be present for grace to be confirmed.

Continuing the representation of the sacrifice in the Mass is not necessary.

Question 28

Luther & Zwingli

Differences

Answer 28

L - Christ is present in the Eucharist
Z - Christ becomes a commemoration by the community coming together and participating.

L - Change the Mass and remove the sacrificial element.
Z - Abolish the Mass

Question 29

Reformed

Answer 29

Only divine laws are to be obeyed unconditionally.

The emphasis on the Bible’s witness as important for faith and life. Sola scriptura

Question 30

Lutheran Reform

Answer 30

Upholds Luther’s theological teachings such as sola scriptura (scripture as the primary authority for faith and life), justification by the grace of God alone, and salvation through faith in Christ alone.