Bound Choice, Election, And Wittenberg Theological Method
Subtitle: From Martin Luther To The Formula Of Concord (Lutheran Quarterly Books)
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: August 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9780802829221
Subjects: Christian theology; Lutheran Churches; History of doctrines; Christianity - Theology - History; Religion - Theology; Religious aspects; Religion; Lutheran Church; Christian Theology - Anthropology; Christian Theology - History; Christianity - Lutheran; Christianity - Theology - Anthropology; 16th century; Free will and determinism; History
First sentence: When Martin Luther composed the thirty-sixth article in his Assertion of All Articles in 1521, summarizing his critique of medieval theology as it had developed in the preceding five years, he repeated and retracted a thesis he had asserted three years earlier in Heidelberg: Free choice after [the fall of Adam into] sin is merely a term, and when [such choosing] does what it is able to do [facit, quod in se est], it commits moral sin.
Description: "Galvanized by Erasmus's teaching on free will, Martin Luther wrote De servo arbitrio, or The Bondage of the Will, insisting that the sinful human will could not turn itself to God. In this first study to investigate the sixteenth-century reception of De servo, Robert Kolb unpacks Luther's theology and recounts his followers' ensuing disputes until their resolution in the Lutheran churches' 1577 "Formula of Concord.""--BOOK JACKET.