He does not say, it is a communication of the remission of sins, but rather it is a communication of the body of Christ.Īndreae: Sayings of Holy Scripture do not need to be proven with a syllogism they are rather believed on account of divine authority.Īndreae: This is a novelty and unheard of in any school: that testimonies of Scripture are proved with a syllogism!
Colloquy of montbeliard free#
Please feel free to turn it into a meme (that admittedly only a few would find humorous).Īndreae: Paul writes, in 1 Corinthians 10:16: The bread which we break is a communication of the body of Christ. It took place at the The Colloquy of Montbéliard (1586). Perhaps the easiest way to explain it is to give you one short exchange between two important Reformation theologians: Jakob Andreae, and Theodore Beza. Neither side was interested in letting reason determine the core concepts of Christian theology, but the Reformed believed that a redeemed person, using his or her mind, could use tools like formal logic to explain mysteries like Holy Communion. Lutherans resisted the attempts of the Reformed to use reason as a way to smooth out difficult concepts in the biblical text. So what gives? Why couldn’t everybody just get along? It all comes down to the instrumental use of reason. After five hundred years of Protestantism, it certainly remains lamentable that evangelicals of various stripes remain divided.
After several years of teaching church history and theology, it often remains hard to explain the divide between the Lutherans and Reformed (a.k.a.
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