HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 87: Spiritual Transformation, Guideposts, Michel De Montaigne
9 Apr 2020
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More so than luther, calvin grounded his teachings in the certainty of scripture as opposed to all other authorities. Calvin and his followers thus inched towards scripture only: biblical inconsistency. Luther looked for justification by faith in the bible. He pitted parts of scripture against each other. James was an epistle of the straw since it emphasized works. Dillenberger calls this luther finding his own bible within a bible: biblical consistency. Calvin strove to make the works of james fit together with the faith of paul. For him all of the pieces of scripture had to fit together. The job of the spirit was to reveal this consistency to us: spiritual transformation. As with faber and with calvin, an inner spiritual transformation is needed in order to appreciate scripture properly: sensus divinitatis. That is, in addition to reason we have a basic sense that tell us there is a god.
