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Concordia Theological Monthly

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

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