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:''...justification is “the article by which the church stands or falls” because on it the church’s proclamation of the gospel depends, although Luther also ascribed to the Trinity, the incarnation, and the resurrection, among others...<ref>Hans Hübner and Bruce D. Marshall, “Justification,” The Encyclopedia of Christianity (Grand Rapids, MI; Leiden, Netherlands: Wm. B. Eerdmans; Brill, 1999–2003), 95–96.</ref> | :''...justification is “the article by which the church stands or falls” because on it the church’s proclamation of the gospel depends, although Luther also ascribed to the Trinity, the incarnation, and the resurrection, among others...<ref>Hans Hübner and Bruce D. Marshall, “Justification,” The Encyclopedia of Christianity (Grand Rapids, MI; Leiden, Netherlands: Wm. B. Eerdmans; Brill, 1999–2003), 95–96.</ref> | ||
:''As regards Servetus (who believed the [[Oneness]] doctrine), Luther knew only his first work against the Trinity, and pronounced it, in his Table Talk (1532), an “awfully bad book.”<ref>Philip Schaff and David Schley Schaff, History of the Christian Church, vol. 8 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1910), 706.</ref> | :''As regards Servetus'' (who believed the [[Oneness]] doctrine), ''Luther knew only his first work against the Trinity, and pronounced it, in his Table Talk (1532), an “awfully bad book.”<ref>Philip Schaff and David Schley Schaff, History of the Christian Church, vol. 8 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1910), 706.</ref> | ||
:''The major sixteenth-century Protestant Reformers continued firmly in the Patristic and Catholic tradition in their basic exposition of Trinity and divine personhood. What was stated in the Smalcald Articles (1537) about the Trinity is typical of the lifelong attitude of Luther (who helped draw up these Articles). In Part I — The Trinity, it is stated: ‘That Father, Son and Holy Spirit, three distinct persons in one divine essence, are one God, who created heaven and earth.’<ref>Douglas F. Kelly, Systematic Theology: Grounded in Holy Scripture and Understood in the Light of the Church, vol. 1 (Ross-shire, Scotland: Mentor, 2008), 507.</ref> | :''The major sixteenth-century Protestant Reformers continued firmly in the Patristic and Catholic tradition in their basic exposition of Trinity and divine personhood. What was stated in the Smalcald Articles (1537) about the Trinity is typical of the lifelong attitude of Luther (who helped draw up these Articles). In Part I — The Trinity, it is stated: ‘That Father, Son and Holy Spirit, three distinct persons in one divine essence, are one God, who created heaven and earth.’<ref>Douglas F. Kelly, Systematic Theology: Grounded in Holy Scripture and Understood in the Light of the Church, vol. 1 (Ross-shire, Scotland: Mentor, 2008), 507.</ref> |