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Thus a characteristic Arminian response to particular redemption (or “limited atonement”) is to say,
Sinclair B. Ferguson • The Whole Christ
Most importantly, the council rejected Luther’s teachings on justification, asserting the reality of human freedom in the work of redemption, the indispensability of good works and the need for the co-operation of the will set free by grace. Moreover, it did this with so thorough and plenteous an exposition from scripture that no Protestant
... See moreDavid Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
In various areas, notably the doctrine of the atonement, he is the key orthodox theologian. In philosophy, his premise was, credo ut intelligam, I believe in order that I might understand. As against this, Abelard, an Aristotelian, sought to understand in order to believe. Whereas for Anselm faith precedes understanding, for Abelard (1079–1142)
... See moreR. J. Rushdoony • An Informed Faith
The General Council alone should have power to excommunicate, and to give authoritative interpretations of Scripture. Thus all believers will have a voice in deciding doctrine. The Church is to have no secular authority; there is to be no excommunication without civil concurrence; and the Pope is to have no special powers.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
The God of Calvinism demanded of his believers not single good works, but a life of good works combined into a unified system.
Max Weber • The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
But it seems to me that it is not unwarranted to formulate man’s duty to obey God as a right vis-à-vis the state, and in this respect, it was probably quite logical when John Paul II found in the Christian relativization of the state for the sake of freedom to obey God the expression of a human right that preexists all state authority.
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger • Faith and Politics
special “revelations” aside, theology should be derived from common Christian experience.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
Under the pen of Luther, the principles of the movement became ever clearer: the ‘priesthood of all believers’, the complete dependency of the soul on God’s grace, unmerited election to salvation, the ‘bondage of the will’ of fallen humanity (either to the devil or to God), the ‘freedom of the Christian’, salvation by faith and not by works, and
... See moreDavid Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
Those who look at other Christians should know that they will be eternally united with them in Jesus Christ. Christian community means community through and in Jesus Christ.