Luther and Calvin Final Flashcards
Who was Beza
Calvin’s successor
Who was Bucer
Sided with Luther and took up his cause of reformation. Bucer was in the delegation from Nurmburg.
Who was Bullinger
Wrote the second Helvetic Confession
Who was Melanchthon
Friend of Luther. Taught Biblical languages and the University of Wittenberg.
Who was Farel
Bucer’s French Colleague who also advocated for a simple aesthetic to worship
Who was Sadoleto
The Cardinal to whom Calvin addressed on the issue of Christian Piety.
What is the significance of the location Regensburg
Where the Regensburg Colloquy was held to discuss issues such as the human condition before the fall, the freedom of the will, etc….
Define Extra-Calvinisticum
The idea that the Logos was not fully contained within the humanity of Christ but, while truly united to it the person of the Mediator, continued also to exist beyond the physical limits of the flesh.
Both the Lutherans and the Reformed accept the validity of Baptism in other churches outside of their own communion as long as what two “ifs” go with administration of that baptism from another communion/tradition?
If administered in the correct fashion: with(1) water and (2) in the name of the trinitarian God.
In the Small Catechism, what four questions did Luther use to guide children to a proper understanding of the sacrament of baptism as a tool that God uses to deliver his promise of salvation?
- What is Baptism?
- What does it do?
- How is that possible?
- So What?
According to Luther….
- What makes the baptismal water any different from the water used in an ordinary way?
- What various kinds of means does Luther note?
- To which of these means does Luther ad the word “authoritatively”?
- It is water enclosed in God’s Command and connected with God’s word
- Human language encountered in Christian Conversation, in sermons and absolution, in hymns and catechisms, and Holy Scripture.
- Holy Scripture is authoritative to Luther
According to Luther…..
- What is the relationship of the Holy Spirit to baptism?
- What is the relationship of the Word to baptism?
- What is the relationship of faith to baptism?
- The Holy Spirit creates and elicits faith
- It is on the basis of the word that faith will grow, not of the person’s own doing
- Luther insisted that the baptismal promise cannot be enjoyed apart from faith.
In terms of his medieval inheritance, Luther came to reject….
- What common aspect of baptismal understanding found amongst many monks and nuns?
- What baptismal teaching from Thomas Aquinas?
- What baptismal teaching from Duns Scots?
- What common medieval belief based on a citation from the Church Father, Jerome?
- Rejected that the monastic conviction that the monks’ or nuns’ vow brought them onto a steeper but more direct and more certain path to godliness than baptism
- Rejected Aquinas’ view that baptism’s saving quality had a secret “divine power”.
- Rejected Scotus’ view that baptism had the power to convey grace which sprang from God’s will alone, apart from his word
- Rejected Jerome, that penance provides the plank of salvation after the shipwreck of postbaptismal sins.
What element of Luther’s initial German baptismal liturgy (and retained in many other Lutheran baptismal liturgies) did the Reformed (whom Kolb calls “Calvinists”) reject? Why?
The Calvinists rejected the minor exorcism in the liturgy because they though it was a remnant of medieval superstition.
According to the Reformed, what is the relationship of baptism and grace?
Baptism is a means of grace, not a reaction or response to grace.