The Conservative Reformation and Its Theology: As Represented in the Augsburg Confession, and in the History and Literature of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
Overview
This volume contains Charles Porterfield Krauth’s The Conservative Reformation and Its Theology, which chronicles the development of Reformation theology and defends conservative doctrines of the Reformation. Specific doctrines discussed include original sin, the person of Christ, Baptism, and the Lord’s Supper.
Top Highlights
“Conservatism without Progress produces the Romish and Greek type of the Church. Progress without Conservatism runs into Revolution, Radicalism, and Sectarianism.” (Pages vii–viii)
“Not destruction, not revolution, but reformation, was that at which Luther aimed, and reformation is not revolution, but the great preventive of it.” (Page 141)
“The mightiest weapon which the Reformation employed against Rome was, not Rome’s errors, but Rome’s truths.” (Page 203)
“He must know the history of the past in order to live in the life of to-day, which is the outflowing of the life of yesterday, and in order to reach beyond the hour into that solemn to-morrow of the future, which is to be the outflowing of the life of to-day. For all these and for many other reasons, the student of theology must master the great facts in the history of the Church of all time; but most of all, the history of our own Church, the richest, the most suggestive, the most heart-inspiring of the whole.” (Page 176)
“Gœbel, a Reformed writer, says: ‘That charming, frank good-humor, and that beneficence which rise from the very depth of the soul, and which so advantageously distinguish the German nation from others, are wanting among the Reformed—even among the Germans of the Reformed Church. The piety of the Lutherans is deep, fervent, heartfelt.’” (Page 155)
- Title: The Conservative Reformation and Its Theology: As Represented in the Augsburg Confession, and in the History and Literature of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Author: Charles P. Krauth
- Publisher: J. B. Lippincott Company
- Print Publication Date: 1875
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Lutheran Church › Doctrinal and controversial works
- Resource ID: LLS:CNSRFMTHL
- Resource Type: text.monograph.church-history
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T17:43:33Z
