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The Immortality Of The Soul As Presented In The Lutheran Confessons, Victor Felten
The Immortality Of The Soul As Presented In The Lutheran Confessons, Victor Felten
Bachelor of Divinity
The study of the concept of the immortality of the individual soul, or at least of survival in some form after death, seeks to ascertain the fate of condition, temporary or eternal, of individual souls, and how far the issues of the future depend on the present life. Here is where immortality is basic to eschatological implications.
Luther's Social Ethics In Contrast To Rome's Asceticism, Arnold Wessler
Luther's Social Ethics In Contrast To Rome's Asceticism, Arnold Wessler
Bachelor of Divinity
"Luther brought back the pure doctrine of justification; that, above all, made him the Reformer of the Church." By carrying out the implications of this Scriptural truth in its relation to the rest of Roman theology Luther once and for all broke the power of the Roman papacy. Other reformers had failed and Luther succeeded in his Reformation because he struck at the root of the problem and undermined the foundations upon which Rome's whole diabolical system of theology rested. Luther succeeded because he destroyed Rome's sacerdotalism and sacramentalism.
The Mystical Union Of The Believer With Christ, Waldemar Streufert
The Mystical Union Of The Believer With Christ, Waldemar Streufert
Bachelor of Divinity
There is a certain restless dissatisfaction in man as he pursues his daily tasks and endeavors to enjoy his present life to the full. In the case of the believer, there is not this uncertainty and groping. But in the case of the unconverted, there is many a one who substitutes an “unknowab1e Infinity for the true God. Man will strive earnestly to satisfy his craving after the true Reality, but rarely, if ever, will he try to find the truth about God in His Word. Instead of this objective source, man seeks communion with nature and thus hopes to …
Life After Death, With Especial Stress On The Teachings Of Spiritism, Russellism, And Christian Science, Theo W. Brust
Life After Death, With Especial Stress On The Teachings Of Spiritism, Russellism, And Christian Science, Theo W. Brust
Bachelor of Divinity
There is no subject that has more persistently occupied the mind of man than that of his state in the future world. A true understanding of this question involves man's happiness not only hereafter, but also here. It implies, of course, an "after death", or that death does not end all.