These videos consist of a series of questions answered by Dr. Arand and Dr. Schulz over the Book of Concord and the issues it tried to answer.
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50 - What guidance does Melanchthon give for persuing a righteousness of works without giving up the righteousness of faith?
Charles Arand
Dr. Arand explains how to live in both kinds of righteousness.
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51 - Why does Melanchthon see the inability to keep the First Commandment as the key to understanding original sin?
Charles Arand
Dr. Arand explains the effects of original sin on the human condition.
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52 - What is the line of argument in Apology IV?
Charles Arand
Dr. Arand explains how Melanchthon thought as he wrote the Apology to the Augsburg Confessions and why Article 4 is written the way it is.
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53 - If Christians are forgiven, then why do they still suffer the common calamaties of life?
Charles Arand
Dr. Arand explains why Christians suffer like the unrighteous.
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54 - What principles guided the confessors on which parts of church practice to keep?
Charles Arand
Dr. Arand explains how the confessors chose what practices to keep and which ones to change.
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55 - Why is there confusion over the number of Sacraments?
Charles Arand
Dr. Arand explains what a sacrament is and why one can argue that there arte 2 or 3 sacraments.
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56 - Is there a proper way to honor the saints?
Charles Arand
Dr. Arand discusses the use of saints to intercede for us and why Lutherans do not.
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57 - Why were the Smalcald Articles needed?
Charles Arand
Dr. reviews the history that lead up to the writing of the Smalcald Articles and why they were written.
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58 - How was it that a secular group took up the matter of what to say at a church council?
Charles Arand
Dr. Arand reviews the history of why the secular princes were involved in the proposed church council.
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59 - Was Luther near death at the time of the writing of the Smalcald Articles?
Charles Arand
Dr. Arand responds to the last will and testament that Luther had in the Smalcald Articles.
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60 - What is role or the first chief article of the Smalcald Articles?
Charles Arand
Dr. Arand explains why the Smalcald Articles were laid out and why they were laid out in that manner.
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61 - Did Luther and Melanchthon agree in their views on the papacy?
Klaus Detlev Schulz
Dr. Schulz contrast Luther's and Melanchthon's views on the papacy as the antichrist.
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62 - How is enthusiasm the basis of all heresy for Luther?
Charles Arand
Dr. Arand explains what Luther meant by the word translated as enthusiasm in the Smalcald Articles.
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63 - Does Luther imply that a believer loses the Holy Spirit every time they sin?
Charles Arand
Dr. Arand explains the struggle between the old Adam and the new Adam and how the struggle indicates the existence of faith.
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64 - How did 16th century Lutherans overcome the difficulty of finding bishops to ordain their pastors?
Klaus Detlev Schulz
Dr. Schulz explains that the church has the right to ordain and is not just the hierarchy of the church.
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65 - Do the documents discussed serve as a roadmap for eccumenical relations today?
Charles Arand
Dr. Arand explains how the Augsburg Confessions, the Apology and Smalcald Articles were written to obtain ecumenical agreement.
