HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 65: Sola Scriptura, Indulgence
7 Apr 2020
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The affective dimension of luther"s approach thus offered christians a sense of comfort rooted in the certainty of assertions. He had told erasmus that nothing is worse than the chasm of skeptical uncertainty: escaping uncertainty. Instead of dwelling in anxiety and uncertainty over one"s own ethical arts as the young luther had done. If justification is granted by faith in christ alone, then whoever has such faith should feel elect within. Luther"s refocusing of christian christianity upon the grace of god given via christ was. Luther can be compared to late medieval hyper-augustinians bradwardine and gregory of. These are key differences separating luther"s theology from augustine. The most obvious is that augustine used his theology to build up the universal ideal of the church. Rather than succumbing to schism: authority of the church. Nor was augustine really sola scriptura, since only the authority of the universal church swayed him toward the bible.
