PHIL 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Index Librorum Prohibitorum, Lutheran Core, Counter-Reformation

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Philosophy (PHIL)
• Course: PHIL 001
• Professor: cline

Document Summary

1517: augustinian theologian martin luther writes the 95 thesis, whereby he: Deplored the entanglement of god"s free gift of grace in a complex system of indulgences and good works. Insisted that the church had no authority over purgatory or divine design. Faith alone: salvation is by faith, not by works. 1521: luther is excommunicated by leo x (pope during this time), (bull exurge. Beginning of the age of religious wars. Luther"s idea of faith was not human centered: faith is not voluntary belief, but. Predestination reaffirmed: god is solely responsible for salvation, as he chose. Human beings are essentially corrupt, so they could will, but they could only will evil. Luther granted humanity no free will in the economy of salvation rather god instills it in human beings as an unmerited gift the saved and the damned. (good works, indulgencies, hierarchy of priesthood, church as scriptural interpreter, etc. ) Campaign to spread catholic faith (jesuits, proselytism in an age of discoveries)