By Professor of Systematic Theology Emeritus Robert Kolb
Literature on confessionalization has opened new vistas for contemplating early-modern Christianity and its position in Western social-political contexts, however the ecclesiastical cultures of the interval want extra examine and research to refine our specialize in how Christians lived of their personal groups and on the topic of society at huge. This volume's essays verify 8 components of Lutheran lifestyles (its starting place in sixteenth-century processing of Luther's legacy, college educating, preaching, catechesis, devotional literature, well known piety, church and society, church and secular executive) and geographical parts (Nordic and Baltic lands, the dominion of Hungary) to orient readers to present scholarly dialogue and recommend extra avenues for exploration and evaluation.Each deals views on Lutherans' makes an attempt to perform their religion on this planet. The participants are: Kenneth Appold, Gerhard Bode, Susan Boettcher, Christopher Boyd Brown, Robert Christman, David Daniel, Irene Dingel, Robert von Friedeburg, Mary Jane Haemig, and Eric Lund.
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48–49. 14 15 28 irene dingel August through the colloquy at Altenburg (1568/1569), but his GnesioLutherans (the radical interpreters of Luther’s legacy) and the Philippists (those who regarded Melanchthon’s authority equal to Luther’s and believed the two shared the same Wittenberg theology) could not come to agreement. A new approach was necessary; new persons had to assume leadership in the search for a formulation that could create concord among the interpretations of the Wittenberg legacy. The Controversies The controversies that broke out after the Augsburg Interim revolved around the question of how the reformational theology of Wittenberg should be conveyed to the following generations, either in conscious focus on Luther’s teaching or in the form of a theology that integrated Luther and Melanchthon but stressed Melanchthon’s concerns.
Amsdorf ’s reaction was different. He advocated That This Proposition “Good works are Detrimental to salvation” Is a Proper, True, Christian Proposition (1559). 46 Amsdorf also pursued his critique of Major against his only Ernestine associate who defended Major, Justus Menius, superintendent of Gotha. The two served together as parish visitors in 1554. Amsdorf demanded condemnation of several of Major’s writings, but Menius refused. He also taught that salvation could be lost by sinning and so regarded the life which the Holy Spirit produces in the Christian as necessary for salvation.
This readiness to go it alone in defining the confession of the faith and the later efforts to regain the electoral title in the “Grumbach Affair” of 1565/1566 constitute part of the political and ecclesiastical context of the theological controversies between 1548 and 1577/1580. When Johann Wilhelm succeeded his brother, whom the “Grumbach Affair” landed in prison, in 1567, he tried to reach reconciliation in public teaching with his Albertine cousin Wilhelm Preger, Matthias Flacius Illyricus, 2 vols.