Infant Baptism in Nineteenth-Century Lutheran Theology. By David P. Scaer
While the title of this volume suggests a circumscribed area of study, the actual contents circumscribe it even more tightly; for it concerns German Lutheran theologians of that century, mostly systematic theologians. Fifteen of them come under scrutiny, one (Schleiermacher) not a Lutheran, and one...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 65, Issue: 1, Pages: 351-354 |
| Review of: | Infant baptism in nineteenth century Lutheran theology (St. Louis, MO : Concordia Pub. House, 2011) (Buchanan, Colin O.)
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| Summary: | While the title of this volume suggests a circumscribed area of study, the actual contents circumscribe it even more tightly; for it concerns German Lutheran theologians of that century, mostly systematic theologians. Fifteen of them come under scrutiny, one (Schleiermacher) not a Lutheran, and one (Martensen) not a German, but a Dane. Scaer provides an almost line-by-line account of the intellectual and theological convolutions into and out of which these learned men delivered themselves to justify baptizing infants., The trouble lay, it seems, with their forefather, Martin Luther! Luther (a) reckoned justification came sola fide, but (b) wished to continue infant baptism, and thus (c) attributed faith to infants as the qualification and outcome of their baptism. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flt217 |