
Defending Faith
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Content
- Cover
- Titel
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Why Some Pastors Should Not Become Professors: The Origins of the Osiandrian Controversy
- A. Mr. Osiander Goes to Königsberg
- B. Silence in the Heavens for One-Quarter Hour
- C. Blaming the Messenger: Mörlin Becomes Involved
- D. A Few Voices in Protest
- E. Osiander's Confession
- Chapter 2: Protesting Osiander (1551-1552): How Lutherans Fight in Public
- A. Before Osiander's Confession of 1551
- B. To Write or Not To Write: Publishing Attacks on Osiander to June 1552
- I. Official and Semi-Official Responses
- 1. The Church and Printers in Wittenberg
- 2. The Church in Ernestine Saxony
- 3. The Church of Pomerania-Wolgast
- 4. The Church of Electoral Brandenburg
- 5. The Church of Brandenburg-Küstrin
- 6. The Theologians of Magdeburg
- II. "Privately" Published Responses
- 1. Erasmus Alber
- 2. Johannes Brettschneider (Placotomus)
- 3. Anonymous Tracts (Caspar Aquila)
- 4. Anton Otto
- 5. Alexander Alesius
- 6. Stephan Bülau
- 7. The Silence of Württemberg
- C. Osiander Strikes Back: Responses Breed Responses
- D. Looking Back: Lutherans at War
- Chapter 3: Debating the Basics in Lutheran Doctrine: "Justification by Grace, through Faith, on Account of Christ"
- A. The Contours of the Theological Debate
- B. Defining "Justification by Grace through Faith"
- I. Christ's Divine Indwelling versus Divine Imputation
- II. Essence versus Relation in Justification
- III. Cheap Grace versus Repentance and Sanctification
- C. Justification, Consolation and the Role of Experience
- I. Robbing Comfort from the Afflicted Conscience
- II. Confessing the Faith
- D. "Justification . on Account of Christ": Christ's Person and the Atonement
- I. Propter Christum: Justification and the Atonement
- II. Justification on account of the One Christ
- 1. The communicatio idiomatum
- 2. Osiander, the Nestorian
- 3. Debating Biblical Texts
- E. "To Obtain Such Faith": Philosophical versus Scriptural Method in Theology
- Chapter 4: True Lutherans, All: Joachim Mörlin, Matthias Flacius and Nicholas Gallus against the "Prussian Gods"
- A. "In the Beginning": Mörlin's First Publications
- I. Epistolae Quaedam (1551)
- II. Von der Rechtfertigung des glaubens gründtlicher warhafftiger bericht
- B. Defensores fidei: The "Official" Response of Flacius and Gallus
- C. Preparing a Brew for Osiander: Flacius and Gallus on the Offensive: 1552 - 1553
- I. De Iesu nomine Christi
- II. Wider die neue Ketzerey der Dikaeusisten
- III. Wider die Götter in Preussen
- IV. Antidotum auff Osiandri gifftiges Schmeckbier
- V. Zwo fürnemliche Gründe Osiandri verlegt, zu einem Schmeckbier
- VI. Kurtze und klare erzelung der argument Osiandri
- VII. Proba des geists Osiandri
- VIII. Von der Gerechtigkeit wider Osiandrum
- IX. Ermanung an alle Stende der Christlichen Kirchen in Preußen
- X. Beweisung
- XI. Explicatio loci Sancti Pauli Rom. 3
- D. Setting the Record Straight: Mörlin's Historia of 1554
- E. Combatting Prussia's Duke and Königsberg's Osiandrists, 1553 - 1559
- I. Das Osiandri Jrthumb mit keiner vorgessenheit zustillen, oder hinzulegen sey
- II. Fighting Duke Albrecht, Comforting the Persecuted
- III. Fighting Duke Albert and His Supporters in Others' Words
- IV. Fighting Johannes Funck
- V. Fighting Matthias Vogel
- VI. A Concluding Word from Nicholas Gallus
- F. Epilogue: Morlinus Triumphans
- G. The Heart of the Matter
- Chapter 5: Johannes Brenz and Philip Melanchthon against Osiander: Differentiated Consensus in the Sixteenth Century?
- A. Melanchthon and Brenz's Early Opinions in the Osiandrian Controversy
- B. 1552: Bad News from Württemberg
- I. The First Memorandum from Württemberg (5 December 1551)
- II. A Second Memorandum from Württemberg (1 June 1552)
- III. Reactions to Brenz's Second Memorandum
- C. Post mortem Osiandri: Brenz's Statements of 1553
- I. Brenz's Declaratio
- II. Approval of Brenz by Matthias Flacius
- D. The Nuremberg Osiandrists: Melanchthon's Decisive Intervention in 1555
- I. The Literary Controversy: Pro and Con
- II. The Nuremberg Decision
- 1. The Memorandum of 27 September
- 2. The Tract of 10 November 1555
- a. The "Statement" of 28 September 1555
- b. Jakob Runge's Sermon of 29 September 1555
- c. Melanchthon's Exhortation of 2 October 1555
- E. A Nuremberger Takes Brenz to Task
- Chapter 6: The Authoritative Luther for and against Osiander
- A. Osiander: "My Teaching Is Luther's
- Luther's Is Mine"
- I. The Antilogia of Osiander's Opponents: First Shot in the War over Luther or a Return of Fire?
- II. Osiander's Pre-Emptive Strike: The Bericht und Trostschrift
- III. Osiander's Antidotum to the Antilogia
- IV. Osiander's Gezeugnis der heiligen Schrifft
- B. First Responders, 1551
- I. Nuremberg's Michael Roting
- II. A Voice from Leipzig: Bernhard Ziegler
- III. An Anonymous Tract and Its Aftermath
- 1. Raven (or: Rabbi) Osiander versus the Honorable, Highly Educated Mr. Doctor Martin Luther of Blessed Memory
- 2. Osiander Attacks His "Fly by Night" Opponent
- 3. Matthias Flacius Is Joined to the Dialogue between Luther and Osiander
- 4. Flacius Himself Responds
- C. Osiander's "Boozy" Opponents: Wolfgang Waldner and Johannes Pollicarius
- I. Wolfgang Waldner, Osiander's Long-Earred Owl
- II. Osiander's Reply to the "Uhu"
- III. The "Uhu" Hoots Back
- IV. Luther as Church Father: Johann Pollicarius and an Early Luther Word from Wittenberg
- V. Osiander's Reply to Pollicarius in His Schmeckbier
- D. Anton Otto's "Wider die Ursachen Osianders"
- E. Longer Texts Join the Chorus
- I. The Smalcald Articles
- II. Three Sermons of "Martin Luther" (aka Georg Buchholzer)
- F. Philip Melanchthon Joins the Fray
- I. Antwort auff das Buch herrn Andreae Osiandri
- II. Osiander Refutes the Answer
- III. Melanchthon's Last (Luther) Word
- G. A Final Word: Andreas Musculus on Luther's Christology
- H. Joachim Mörlin's Postscript of 1555
- Chapter 7: Melanchthon's Theological Response to Osiander
- A. First Things First: Defining Iustitia Dei
- B. The In-Between Times
- I. Melanchthon's Antwort of January 1552
- II. Melanchthon's Preface to the Lectures on Romans by Alexander Alesius
- III. Melanchthon's Oration against Osiander's Calumnies
- C. Famous Last Word: Melanchthon in His Final Commentary on Romans
- I. The Argumentum
- II. Introducing Romans 3:21
- III. Excursus: Explicit Agreement with Osiander in the Enarratio
- IV. The Heart of the Disagreement
- V. What Does This Mean? The Debate over Definition
- VI. Disagreement over the Comfort of the Gospel
- Chapter 8: Writing against Osiander: A Bibliographic Essay
- A. 1549 - 1550: In the Beginning .
- B. January - May 1551: A Moment of Silence
- C. Summer 1551: Three Still, Small Voices
- D. Fall, 1551: Breezing-Up before the Storm
- E. 1552: Batten down the Hatches!
- I. January Thaw
- II. February Shadows
- March Madness
- III. April Showers
- IV. May Flowers
- V. The Long, Hot Summer
- VI. The Fall of Osiander
- F. Ringing in the New Year, 1553
- G. A Lull in the Action: 1554
- H. The End of the Line: 1555
- I. The Last Hurrah: 1556 - 1559 (1567)
- Bibliography of Anti-Osiander Tracts
- Bibliography
- Index of Bible Verses
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects
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