![]() ![]() The picture drawn by Heinrich denifle, OP, that portrays Luther as an ossified Ockhamite is no longer tenable. Whether Luther was deeply influenced by nominalism is still disputed. Two of his professors, Jodocus Trutvetter and Bartholomew Arnold von Usingen, were followers of the via moderna. ![]() In April 1501 Luther matriculated at the University of Erfurt and enrolled in the bursa of St. The next semester he transferred to Eisenach because he had relatives there. In 1496 he was sent to Magdeburg, where he remained until Easter of the following year at a school conducted by the brethren of the common life. Young Martin was enrolled in the local Latin day school in 1488 and there began the traditional study of Latin grammar. He had been elected to the city council in 1491. By the turn of the 16th century his father's financial situation had improved, and in 1511 he became owner in a number of mines and foundries in the area. There is little evidence to argue, as Erik Erikson once did, that the atmosphere of the household was abnormal. Luther's father was a strict disciplinarian and in his early childhood the family was beset by poverty. Within a year after his birth the family moved to Mansfield, where the father was employed as a laborer in the copper mines. Martin of Tours, he was named after the sainted Roman soldier.Įarly Years. As was the practice of the time, the child was baptized the following day by the pastor, Bartholomew Rennebecher and since it was the feast of St. ![]() His parents, Hans Luder and Margaret Ziegler, had recently emigrated from the farming community of M öhra, where the Luder family had lived for many generations. The volume concludes by reflecting on the reception of Calvin’s theology of works and reward in later Reformed thought.German Reformer b. In sum, the volume (1) analyzes Calvin’s tracts, scriptural commentaries and Institutes to demonstrate the manner of Calvin’s rejection of the doctrine of merit (2) reviews the scholastic developments surrounding the doctrine of merit from the High to Late Middle Ages as background to Calvin’s thought (3) highlights Calvin’s principle problems with the doctrine of merit: the competitive-causal schema between divine and human causality, merit as a basis for justification, and good works as “deserving” of reward and (4) unpacks Calvin’s theology of justification, sanctification, the worth of works, and the role of works in salvation as an alternative to the “opponents” doctrine of merit. This volume, however, interprets Calvin’s own theological constructions as contextually determined by the reigning polemics of his day. While significant analysis has been given to Calvin’s doctrine of justification, its relation to sanctification, the notion of union with Christ, and the role of participation, there is as yet no sustained analysis of how these teachings are shaped by the most hostile and pervasive of his polemics, namely, his confrontation with a merit-based framework for understanding Christian salvation. (from back of the book) In this study Charles Raith II fills a gap in Reformation-era scholarship by analyzing Calvin’s teaching on works and reward in light of medieval theological developments surrounding the doctrine of merit.
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