Book 3/Chapter 11 Forgiveness (section 21) 1. What is the righteousness of faith equated with? 2. What is such righteousness called, in a word? Scripture proofs (section 22) 1. What passages does Calvin cite in defense of this idea? 2. Augustine says what about the righteousness of the saints? Righteousness of another (section 23) 1. …
Faith Working Through Love
Book 3/Chapter 11 Free gift (section 18) 1. What is Paul’s argument on faith and works in a nutshell? 2. How must we come in order to receive righteousness? Faith alone (section 19) 1. Does Calvin agree with Luther’s translation of Romans 3:28? 2. What evasion does Calvin then deal with? Faith working through love …
Faith Righteousness and Works Righteousness
Book 3/Chapter 11 Faith and works apart (section 13) 1. What error does Calvin address next? 2. A man who wishes to obtain Christ’s righteousness must do what? 3. As long as a particle of works righteousness remains, what else remains? Regenerate works (section 14) 1. What workaround to this did the Sophists come up …
Lest Faith Totter
Book 3/Chapter 11 Assurance (section 11) 1. Does Osiander accept or reject justification as a legal term? 2. What happens if faith pays any attention to works? 3. What is the wonderful plan of salvation? Refutation of Osiander (section 12) 1. What is impossible, according to Osiander? 2. To what end does Osiander heap up …
Faith the Instrument
Book 3/Chapter 11 Faith (section 7) 1. What does Calvin compare faith to? 2. What is faith, and what is its relation to Christ? Essential righteousness (section 8) 1. What is Osiander’s view? Atonement (section 9) 1. What is the basis our justification that does not comport with the divine nature alone? Refuting a slander …
Osiander Again
Book 3/Chapter 11 Osiander’s errors (section 5) 1. What does Calvin call Osiander’s doctrine of essential righteousness? 2. What was Osiander’s error? Confusion (section 6) 1. What two things does Osiander confound? 2. What illustration does Calvin use of things that must be distinguished but which cannot be confused? These are the questions for the …
Double Grace
Book 3/Chapter 11 Justification and regeneration (section 1) 1. Because Christ was given to us, what double grace have we received? 2. What is regeneration? 3. How important is justification to Calvin? The threshold (section 2) 1. Why do we need to get the concept of justification straight? 2. How do we appear in God’s …
Double Danger
Book 3/Chapter 10 Double danger (section 1) 1. What is the double danger Calvin warns against on material possessions? 2. Can this be governed by a fixed rule? The main point (section 2) 1. What must we remember in the use of all things? 2. Did that include delight and pleasure? Insensibiliity (section 3) 1. …
Time of Exile
Book 3/Chapter 9 Present vanity (section 1) 1. Where does our blockishness arise? 2. What is necessary before we are aroused to contemplate the life to come? Two choices (section 2) 1. There is no middle ground between what two options? 2. Do humans generally acknowledge the vanity of this life? Balance (section 3) 1. …
Look Away, Martin Says
“In Torgau a wretched little woman once came to me and said, ‘Ah, dear Doctor, I have idea that I’m lost and can’t be saved because I can’t believe.’ Then I replied, ‘Do you believe, dear lady, that what you pray in the Creed is true?’ She answered with clasped hands, ‘Oh, yes, I believe …