SMC307Y1 Lecture Notes - Bishops' Bible, Ninety-Five Theses, Geneva Bible
18 Dec 2012
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Pursued christian perfection or holiness, you want to be a really good person before god. Reading romans 1:16, in the gospel the justice of god is revealed. Becomes a distinguishing figure of protestant faith, sola scriptura. Luther said there are three sacraments, later he will say 2. Translation of the bible, he had printing press and erasmus translation of the new testament from greek. In the old testament he had the hebrew text of 39 books. Gospel is the key word for luther"s works. He suggests getting over the idea that there are only. What this means is that the gospel and the good news are anything that god has done for us, forgiveness, grace, the gospel is any instance of the good news of salvation through christ. Luther takes this insight about the gospel he looks at the new testament, Only the apostles and prophets can be ministers.
