Concordia Theological Monthly
Article Title
Publication Date
9-1-1940
Document Type
Article
Keywords
election, reason, grace, salvation, revelation, lutherans, doctrine, melanchthon, reformed, theologian, rationalists
Submission Type
Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep
Abstract
"It will be seen from the above that our strictures of distinctive Reformed teachings can be summarized under the heads of rationalism and legalism, representing pernicious tendencies to which we all are prone and which seriously impair divine truth as revealed to us in the Holy Scriptures." (Popular Symbolics, p. 223.) We all are prone to rationalistic thinking. We Lutherans, too, need to guard against setting reason above revelation. We need it as much as any. What we have set down in the preceding articles was not addressed so much to the vulgar rationalists and the Reformed rationalists as to ourselves.
Disciplines
Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Scripture References in this Resource (separated by semi-colons)
1 Timothy 2:4; 2 Corinthians 10:5; Acts 13:48;
Submission Cost
Free
Submission Audience
Laity; Ministers; Scholars
Recommended Citation
Engelder, Th.
(1940)
"Reason or Revelation?,"
Concordia Theological Monthly: Vol. 11, Article 62.
Available at:
https://scholar.csl.edu/ctm/vol11/iss1/62
