Viljens frihed og ufrihed i ældre luthersk tradition
Resumé Martin Luther and early Lutheran tradition claimed that God wills both life and death. There is, however, an asymmetry between God’s will for life and God’s will for death. The article explores how this asymmetry has been handled in different ways within the early Lutheran tradition. Also, th...
| Published in: | Dansk teologisk tidsskrift |
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | Danish |
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[2017]
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Dansk teologisk tidsskrift
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Luther, Martin 1483-1546
/ Lutheran orthodoxy
/ Predestination
/ Free will
/ Synergy
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KDD Protestant Church NBK Soteriology NBL Doctrine of Predestination |
| Further subjects: | B
Free Will
B Martin Luther B Lutheran Orthodoxy B Compatibilism B Synergism B Election B bound choice B Predestination |
| Summary: | Resumé Martin Luther and early Lutheran tradition claimed that God wills both life and death. There is, however, an asymmetry between God’s will for life and God’s will for death. The article explores how this asymmetry has been handled in different ways within the early Lutheran tradition. Also, the Formula of Concord (1577) understood divine predestination to be the cause of human faith. Later Lutheran Orthodoxy understood human faith to be the reason for divine predestination. In the 1880’s these two positions gave rise to a controversy among North American Lutherans. Their main arguments are reproduced.Martin Luther himself believed that everything happened by necessity, but he understood this to be compatible with a distinct version of a free will. In modern philosophical parlance, Luther was a compatibilist. In this, later Lutheran Orthodoxy did not follow the reformer. It moved towards synergism. |
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| ISSN: | 0105-3191 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Dansk teologisk tidsskrift
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