Date of Award
2-22-1998
Document Type
Seminar Paper
Degree Name
Master of Sacred Theology (STM)
Department
Systematic Theology
Scripture References in this Resource (separated by semi-colons)
Matthew 11:30; 1 Corinthians 3: 11-13; Matthew 16: 19; Colossians 2:3; 1 John 16:13; Ephesians 4:5, 6; John 15:5; 1 Corinthians 3:5; Luke 11:23; Colossians 2:9;
Abstract
This essay will analyze Luther's On the Councils and the Church, especially Parts I and II, in search of the criteria he uses for distinguishing between true and false doctrine in the ecumenical councils and consequently for "locating" the "true" church amid the confusing whirl of ecclesiastical traditions. It is my desire to allow Luther himself to speak, to engage the reader in Luther's own argument as it develops in this treatise. He does not show all of his cards in the first pages of the treatise. He builds his case slowly, methodically. As we shall see, according to Luther, everybody must pick and choose from the canons and creeds of these councils, and Luther has a fascinating, and I believe timely, evangelical method of differentiating between what abides and what falls away in church tradition.
Recommended Citation
Meyers, Jeffrey, "Der Grund Der Seligkeit Luther's Evangelical & Christological Method of Distinguishing Doctrine Within the Early Church Councils & Fathers" (1998). Master of Sacred Theology Seminar Papers. 32.
https://scholar.csl.edu/stmsp/32
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