5. LUTHER RUDELY SETS ASIDE THE OLDER DOCTRINE
OF VIRTUE AND SIN.
The habit of sanctifying grace; “cursed
be the word ‘_formatum charitate_’”; sin
coexistent with grace in the good man;
Augustine on concupiscence. “Nothing is of
its own nature good or bad”; the Occamist
acceptation-theory against the “Aristotelian”
definition of virtue and the scholastic
doctrine that virtues and vices are qualities
of the soul _pages_ 209-213
6. PREPARATION FOR JUSTIFICATION.
Christ’s grace does all, and yet man disposes
himself for justification. Man’s self-culture.
Inconsistencies explained by reminiscences of
his early Catholic training _pages_ 213-214
7. APPROPRIATION OF THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST BY
HUMILITY—NEITHER “FAITH ONLY” NOR ASSURANCE OF
SALVATION.
Imputation applied to justification. Another’s
righteousness is imputed to us and becomes
ours; sin remains, but is no longer accounted;
our inability to know whether Christ’s
righteousness has been imputed to us. Advantage
of fear. “He who renounces his own self and
willingly faces death and damnation” is truly
humble, and in such humility is safety. Faith
not yet substituted for humility. Passivity
again emphasized _pages_ 214-222
8. SUBJECTIVISM AND CHURCH AUTHORITY. STORM AND
STRESS.
The back place already taken in Luther’s
mind by the Church and her teaching-office;
his preference for a theology of his own
invention. Our duty of not judging Luther by
the later Tridentine decrees. His Catholic
sentiments on the hierarchy; denounces abuses
whilst respecting the rights of the Roman
Church; desiderates a reduction of festivals;
reproves Bishops for insisting on their rights
instead of rejoicing to see them infringed. On
listening to the inner voice _pages_ 223-230
9. THE MYSTIC IN THE COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.
Luther’s misapprehension of Tauler and other
mystics clearly proved in the Commentary.
Quietism. The “Spark in the Soul.” The
“Theology of the Cross.” The “Night of the
Soul.” Readiness for hell the joy of the
truly wise; Christ and Paul the Apostle, two
instances of such readiness _pages_ 230-240
10. THE COMMENTARY ON ROMANS AS A WORK OF
RELIGION AND LEARNING.
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