Class
10 - Chapter 9
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next week:
Chapter
10 - The Holy Spirit and the Conversion of the Sinner
IDEAS
(Note: Although these questions arise from
specific sections of the chapter, please allow
the whole chapter to possibly supplement your
answers.)
What
four works listed in the third article of the
Augsburg Confession does KOLB note as being worked
by Christ through the Holy Spirt?
What
is the "one" work, and means for this
work, of the Holy Spirit highlighted from the
fifth article?
List
the four points that KOLB highlights in support
for the Confessions that the Holy Spirit is Lord
(true God).
What is the twofold goal of the Holy Spirit as
"Giver of (New) Life"?
Where
does the Holy Spirit always point us and our lives?
"God's
voice comes from outside us." His word is
an external word, an externum verbum. Discuss
the significance of this and give some examples.
List
the five forms of the external word or "Gospel"
which Luther listed in the Smalcald Articles.
Discuss
the aim of the Holy Spirit?s Work through the
viva vox evangelii, the "living voice of
the Gospel." (Also see pages 191-193).
What are the two sacramental forms of the Word?
What
are the three elements which define a sacrament
in the Lutheran churches?
"Like
the hearing and reading of the Word, receiving
[the Word] sacramentally works faith and works
through faith. Without faith the benefits do not
penetrate our lives." Discuss. What is the
danger from the Medieval Roman posistion? What
is the danger from the "some Protestants"
position?
To
what does KOLB attribute the lack of a "strong
sense" of sin in the "Greek tradition"?
"God's
total responsibility for our lives contradicts
total human responsibility, it seems." What
are the two "logical" human answers?
"On
July 17, 1984 I asked Jesus to come into my heart."
Assuming that the speaker is a Christian, discuss
this claim.
List
the contributions that a person makes to his conversion.
Being
prepared to be an effective witness to God's saving
love and power entails what two burdens?
"The
process of re-creation is instantaneous and at
the same time lasts throughout human life."
Discuss.
TERMS
AND PEOPLE
"means
of grace"
sanctification (2)
externum verbum
viva vox evangelii
Novatians
Donatists
ex opere operato
Pelagianism
Semi-Pelagianism
Synergism
ContritionMacedonius
Council of Constantinople, 381
Peter Lombard
Pelagius
John
14:16-18
John 16:7-14
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