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Christian Magistrate and State Church: The Reforming Career

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The sacred text for both Lutherans and Methodists is the Holy Bible. Such a man would fall prey to the enemies of God and would be separated from the camp of God's people (see The Biblical basis for praying to Mary and for Catholic teachings on Mary ) Jesus is the only mediator between God and men, protestant say, so you can't include saints or prayers to them. Here Protestantism puts in its claim, that, by freeing the mind from Roman thraldom, it opened the way for religious and political liberty; for untrammelled evolution on the basis of self-reliance; for a higher standard of morality; for the advancement of science - in short for everygood thing that has come into the world since the Reformation.
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Transformative Lutheran Theologies: Feminist, Womanist, And

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I have also told them that there is a different, enormous difference, between opinion and judgement – and it is a difference that, unfortunately, we are losing all around. Comperimus). 8] Only custom, not so ancient, has it otherwise. This treaty provided that the Lutherans should retain permanently what they then possessed, but that all officials of ecclesiastical estates, who from that time forth should go over to Protestantism would be deposed and replaced by Catholics.
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Growing Up Lutheran: What Does This Mean?

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Only a few survived unaltered, such as this one. An early reflection on the drastic changes in religion in the late sixties and early seventies: New Age, spirituality, mainline charismatic movements, etc., make their appearance. It was the alarm not of timidity, but of wisdom; no of bigotry, but of patriotism. Luther craved that the Papal brief might be read, in virtue of which the legate had full powers to treat of this matter.
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The Church Comes from All Nations: Luther Texts on Mission

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As Negro students attempted to enroll in various high schools and universities, riots resulted, and Federal troops and marshals had to be called out. Although Anabaptism gave birth to no major Protestant tradition (but note the Mennonites), its rejection of the Constantinian state - church and all its works (endorsed unreservedly by all three primary Protestant traditions) became in time the common property of most of Protestantism, especially outside Europe. (E Troeltsch has stressed the revolutionary significance of later Protestantism's abandonment of its early ideal of all - embracing church - civilization, a reformed Christendom.) The Anabaptist "protestation," though persecuted by the authoritarian Protestants, Lutheran, Reformed, and Anglican, is increasingly regarded as a parallel pattern of pristine Protestantism, with perhaps more to contribute to its future than any other pattern.
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The Heritage of Augustana: Essays on the Life and Legacy of

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Protestants often refer to specific Protestant churches and groups as denominations to imply that they are differently named parts of the whole church. Cannot even a blind man by now, therefore, see what is terribly wrong and, moreover, unutterably perverse, unimaginatively disgusting, in ever honoring greatly (or at all!) such a vilely fiendish and surely contemptible degenerate swine? I never experienced such happiness as now. Had Protestantism offered a reform in the sense of amendment, probably all the corrupt elements in the Church would have turned against it, as Jews and pagans turned against Christ and the Apostles.
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The Genius of Luther's Theology: A Wittenberg Way of

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A later "charismatic" movement also stressed the gifts of the Spirit, but often operated within existing denominations rather than coming out of them. So it fell to the lot of those victorious evangelical denominations in the nineteenth century—Congregationalists, Presbyterians, and Baptists—to write the first histories of American religious life. They are “the most evil, most proud, and most impertinent of all nations”.
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Ecumenical, Academic, Pastoral Work, 1931-1932: 1931-1934:

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Citation: Pettinger, Tejvan. “Biography of Martin Luther“, Oxford, UK – www.biographyonline.net. Marsden, "Preachers of Paradox: Fundamentalist Politics in Historical Perspective," in Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism (Grand Rapids, Mich., 1991), 104-9. 8. These supporters of Lutheranism in Germany allied themselves in the Schmalkaldic League in order to consolidate Lutheranism. YEHOVAH God commands His true people, who worship Him, and have the testimony of Yeshua the Messiah, to have NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with this apostate Church-State system which is now emerging from the cocoon -- which is now incubating, and beginning to hatch, and come to life.
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Justification Is for Preaching: Essays by Oswald Bayer,

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Evolutionary theory has very sophisticated critics such as Alvin Plantinga and David Oderberg. The very founding of the Univ. of Wittenberg, which was to be the center of revolt, was part of the urge to humanism. The claims of the reformers to represent the authentic “catholic” Christianity of the church’s tradition, focused especially on their grounding in the patristics, must be dealt with responsibly, even if in the final judgment some find these claims to be untenable.
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Ethics (Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works)

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Many, both in England and Scotland, fled to Holland, where they might concert measures for the rescue of kingdoms now threatened with ruin. The symptoms of the malady, all agreed, were those of poisoning. The most important of the doctrinal decrees was that on justification. After all, didn't the real Head of the church once say that He came not to bring peace but a sword? At the Reformation Protestants believed (with some reason) that they were accomplishing a much-needed reform of the Church that would lead to the collapse of the Papal "Antichrist" and the restoration of true Christianity in its purity.
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Baptism: A User's Guide (Exploring Christian Faith)

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Protestant Ascendancy the domination by the Anglo-Irish Protestant minority in Ireland, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries. Only Mary's devotion to the papacy (which threatened the continued possession of former monastic property in the hands of those who had purchased it from the crown), and her determination to marry her cousin, Philip of Spain, provoked a half-hearted reaction. Like all his enemies, the Jews in Luther's eyes were devils. “Whenever you encounter a real Jew, you may in good faith make the sign of the cross and openly and fearlessly pronounce the words `This is a veritable devil'”. “Therefore,” the Reformer told his followers, “do not doubt and never forget, beloved Christians, that apart from Satan himself, you possess no more deadly poisonous, and dreadful enemy than a real Jew.
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