Creeds of Christendom • VOLUME 1
Creeds of Christendom, with a History and Critical notes. Volume
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61The doctrinal status of the Old Catholic denomination was at first simply Tridentine Romanism versus Vatican Romanism, or the Creed of Pius IV. against the Creed of Pius 2,061 words62The Old Catholic movement in Switzerland is more radical and political than the German, and bears a similar relation to it as the Zwinglian Reformation does to the Luther2,005 words63FIFTH CHAPTER2,050 words64Protestantism is the religion of evangelism and spiritual simplicity; Romanism, the religion of legalism, asceticism, sacerdotalism, and ceremonialism. The one appeals to673 words65§ 38. The Evangelical Confessions of Faith.2,047 words66The Reformed Church had a large number of leaders, as Zwingli, OEcolampadius, Bullinger, Calvin, Beza, Cranmer, Knox, but not one of them, not even Calvin, could impress 2,184 words67SIXTH CHAPTER2,021 words68The Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America, which is so far almost exclusively German as to language, requires its ministers to subscribe the whole Book of Concor1,015 words69§ 41. The Augsburg Confession, 1530.1,255 words70LUTHER'S SHARE IN THE COMPOSITION. [411]1,203 words71CHARACTER AND VALUE.882 words72THE TEXT. THE INVARIATA AND THE VARIATA. [437]2,102 words73[415] Comp. on the historical details of the sources of the Augs. Conf. the Corpus Reform., Vol. XXVI 1858) pp. 113-200; Plitt: Einleitung die Augustana (1867-68), I. pp.2,162 words74[436] So Dr. W. Hoffmann, late Court Chaplain of the Emperor of Germany (Deutschland Einst und Jetzt im Lichte des Reiches Gottes, Berlin, 1868, pp. 476 sqq. and 512 sqq.1,253 words75§ 42. The Apology of the Augsburg Confession, A.D. 1530-1531.916 words76§ 43. Luther's Catechisms. A.D. 1529.765 words77LUTHER'S CATECHISMS.750 words78CHARACTER, VALUE, AND DEFECTS.2,253 words79§ 44. The Articles of Smalcald. A.D. 1537.850 words80CONTENTS.1,552 words81§ 45. The Form of Concord. A.D. 1577.875 words82LUTHER AND MELANCHTHON.1,351 words83LUTHERANS AND PHILIPPISTS.756 words84II. THE SYNERGISTIC CONTROVERSY (1550--1567). [512]1,196 words85IV. THE MAJORISTIC CONTROVERSY (1552-1577.) [525]714 words86V. THE ANTINOMIAN CONTROVERSY (1527-1560). [536]2,159 words87VII. THE CHRISTOLOGICAL OR UBIQUITARIAN CONTROVERSY. [553]2,098 words88Chemnitz escaped some difficulties of the Swabian theory, but by endeavoring to mediate between it and the Melanchthonian and Swiss theory, he incurred the objections to 855 words89VIII. THE HADES CONTROVERSY. [583]1,844 words90X. THE STRASBURG CONTROVERSY ON PREDESTINATION BETWEEN ZANCHI AND MARBACH (1561-1563). [593]1,442 words91THE PREPARATION OF THE FORMULA OF CONCORD. [603]2,298 words92[494] He says (1559): 'Existimo ad confirmandas mentes consensum Vetustatis plurimum conducere' (quoted by Galle, p. 452). He endeavored to prove the agreement of the fat2,156 words93[511] By to sumbebekos Aristotle means a separable property or quality, which does not essentially belong to a thing. In this sense Flacius denied the accidental characte2,167 words94[542] See Utenhoven's Simplex et fidelis narratio, etc., Bas. 1560, and the extracts from it by Salig, Vol. II. pp. 1090 sqq., and Ebrard, Vol. II. pp. 536 sqq. Mönckeber2,044 words95[565] See Gieseler, Vol. IV. p. 466 sq.2,236 words96[593] Planck, Vol. VI. pp.809 sqq.; Röhrich: Geschichte der Reform. im Elsass, bes. in Strassburg, 3 Theile, Strasburg, 1830-1882; Schweizer: Centraldogmen der Reform. Ki2,031 words97§ 46. The Form of Concord, Concluded.2,065 words98The Formula (in the Second Part) distinguishes three kinds of the communicatio idiomatum, which were afterwards more fully analyzed, defined, and designated by the Luther2,004 words996. The familiar illustrations of the iron and fire, and body and soul, used by the Formula, favor the Reformed rather than the Lutheran theory; for the iron does not tran1,583 words100RECEPTION, AUTHORITY, AND INTRODUCTION. [657]904 words101LATER FORTUNES.2,085 words102[631] We anticipate, for the sake of clearness, from the later orthodox writers the names of the three genera. The substance is already in the Formula, and in the treatis2,242 words103[654] See above, p. 314. Comp. also Dorner, Gesch. der Prot. Theol. pp.366 sqq. Planck (Vol. VI. p. 814) charges this article with a confusion not found in the other part2,085 words104[684] In his numerous works, so often quoted.859 words105§ 47. Superseded Lutheran Symbols. The Saxon Confession. The Würtemberg Confession. 1551.1,975 words106§ 48. The Saxon Visitation Articles, 1592.2,257 words107§ 49. AN ABORTIVE SYMBOL AGAINST SYNCRETISM, 1655.1,778 words108SEVENTH CHAPTER.2,021 words109Alex. Schweizer (Zurich): Die Protestantischen Centraldogmen in ihrer Entwicklung innerhalb der Reformirten Kirche. Zurich, 1854-56, 2 vols. Also his Glaubenslehre der ev1,667 words110I. SWISS REFORMED CONFESSIONS.2,044 words1116. As Christ alone died for us, so he is also to be adored as the only Mediator and Advocate between God the Father and the believers. Therefore it is contrary to the Wor2,148 words112§ 52. Zwingli's Distinctive Doctrines.2,032 words113Concerning the Lord's Supper, Zwingli teaches, in opposition to the Romish mass, that it is a commemoration, not a repetition, of the atoning sacrifice of Christ, who off2,027 words114The Lutheran Creed retains substantially the Catholic view of baptismal regeneration, and hence limits infant salvation to those who enjoy this means of grace; [743] allo2,015 words115[734] 'Christum credimus vere esse in coena, immo non credimus esse Domini coenam nisi Christus adsit.' Niemeyer, p. 71.1,783 words116§ 53. The First Confession of Basle. A.D. 1534.1,589 words117§ 54. The First Helvetic Confession, A.D. 1536.923 words118§ 55. The Second Helvetic Confession, A.D. 1566.738 words119COMPOSITION.890 words120CONTENTS.2,032 words
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