Wilson, about the rise of atheism in Victorian England. Original sin idea only developed in the 4 th C by Augustine, claim Voltaire et al. 68.ĭiderot says that if the entire population of Paris was to tell him that a dead man had just been raised to life, he would not believe it. The scandal of particularity: Enlightenment objection to Christian revelation. The enthronement of the Goddess of Reason in the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris in 1793. 60Ĭatholics maintain that Lutherans fail to give due weight to the NT emphasis on good works also that they had misrepresented Augustine, who saw justification as ‘being made righteous’, not ‘being accounted as righteous’. Calvin, while continuing to honour this doctrine, initiated a trend which became of increasing importance in later Reformed theology: the discussion of grace in relation to the doctrine of predestination, rather than justification. The doctrine of justification by faith is especially associated with the Lutheran Reformation. ‘…to concede Galileo’s interpretation of certain biblical passages would seriously undermine Catholic criticisms of Protestantism, which involved the assertion that Protestantism introduced new (and therefore erroneous) interpretations … thus Galileo was caught up in the crossfire of this debate. The emphasis placed upon the doctrine of predestination by Calvinists in the period 1559-1622 is partially because this doctrine most sharply distinguished them from the Lutherans. Vulgate: Luke 1:28 calls Mary gratia plenis, suggesting a reservoir that could be drawn on. Sophisticated scholastic theological systems called ‘cathedrals of the mind’ (Gilson) 39.

Ockham: universals an unnecessary hypothesis. He may have had some sort of breakdown, says McGrath.

‘All that I have written seems like straw to me’ Aquinas, 3 months before his death. (but this is ‘highly questionable’, McGrath) 29. 13.īurckhardt claims that it was at the Renaissance that people first began to think of themselves as individuals. Gnosticism: not dissimilar to the modern New Age phenomenon. Origen’s universalism: apocatastasis (Ac 3:21) all will be saved, even Satan.Īugustine, the second founder of the Christian faith (Jerome).

Here are some notes I’ve taken from this excellent book:

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