| Bibliographical Abbreviations |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction: "One of the Most Famous Exchanges in Western Intellectual History" |
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Content and Method in Wittenberg Theology |
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The Reception of De servo arbitrio as a Theological Issue |
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6 | (5) |
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I "None of My Works Is Worth Anything, Except Perhaps De servo arbitrio . . .": Luther and the Bondage of Human Choice |
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11 | (56) |
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Erasmus and Luther: A Feud Waiting to Happen |
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11 | (4) |
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The Nature of De servo arbitrio |
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15 | (13) |
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The Roots of Luther's View of Choice |
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28 | (3) |
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The Theology of De servo arbitrio |
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31 | (36) |
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32 | (3) |
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35 | (3) |
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38 | (5) |
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God Saves through the Means of Grace |
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43 | (5) |
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Human Beings Are Dependent Creatures |
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48 | (4) |
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All Things Happen by Necessity |
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52 | (3) |
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55 | (4) |
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Human Creatures Are Totally Responsible Agents |
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59 | (2) |
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Believers Live a Life of Repentance |
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61 | (1) |
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God Is Not Responsible for Evil |
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62 | (5) |
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II Drawing the Spirits in His Path: De servo arbitrio Wins a (Critical) Following |
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67 | (36) |
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The Lutheran Humanists and the Bound Will |
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67 | (3) |
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Pulverizing Free Choice and Seeking a Balance (or Dynamic Tension): Melanchthon on the Freedom of the Will |
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70 | (33) |
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70 | (6) |
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The Loci communes of 1521 |
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76 | (2) |
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The Commentary on Colossians |
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78 | (3) |
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The Development of Melanchthon's Thought, 1530-1559 |
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81 | (1) |
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Melanchthon's Views in Official Statements of Faith |
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81 | (3) |
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Melanchthon's Views in the Revisions of His Loci communes |
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84 | (2) |
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86 | (1) |
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Contingency and Necessity |
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87 | (4) |
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91 | (4) |
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Reactions to Melanchthon's Teaching in the 1530s and 1540s (or the Curious Lack Thereof) |
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95 | (2) |
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Melanchthon's Last Word on the Freedom of the Will |
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97 | (6) |
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III Luther's and Melanchthon's Students Debate the Doctrine of the Freedom of the Will |
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103 | (32) |
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The Outbreak of Controversy: The Struggle to Define Wittenberg Theology |
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103 | (3) |
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The Synergistic Controversy |
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106 | (29) |
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The Origins of the Controversy |
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106 | (7) |
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Melanchthon versus Gallus |
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113 | (5) |
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118 | (2) |
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The Public Polemic Continues |
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120 | (8) |
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128 | (7) |
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IV Luther's Students Use De servo arbitrio in Teaching on the Freedom of the Will |
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135 | (35) |
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The Use of De servo arbitrio apart from the Synergistic Controversy |
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136 | (1) |
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The Synergistic Controversy as Setting for the Use of De servo arbitrio |
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137 | (33) |
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139 | (5) |
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144 | (3) |
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147 | (1) |
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God Saves through the Means of Grace |
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147 | (4) |
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Human Beings Are Dependent Creatures |
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151 | (5) |
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Human Creatures Fallen into Sin |
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156 | (5) |
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All Things Happen by Necessity |
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161 | (3) |
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Human Beings Are Totally Responsible Agents |
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164 | (1) |
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Believers Live a Life of Repentance |
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165 | (1) |
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God Is Not Responsible for Evil |
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166 | (4) |
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V "Pious Explanations of Necessity": Predestination as Problem in the Wittenberg Circle |
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170 | (28) |
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Initial Treatments of Predestination |
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171 | (8) |
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The Topic in Loci communes |
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171 | (2) |
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173 | (6) |
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Predestination as Problem in the Wittenberg Late Reformation |
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179 | (19) |
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Leonhardt Palhofer's Rejection of Particular Predestination |
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179 | (3) |
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Nikolaus Selnecker's Rejection of Predestination to Damnation |
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182 | (8) |
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David Chytraeus's Rejection of Absolute Necessity |
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190 | (8) |
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VI "God Has Predestined Those Who Cannot Be Lost": The Formulation of the Lutheran Doctrine of Predestination |
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198 | (46) |
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198 | (28) |
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Spangenberg's Biblical Commentaries |
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200 | (5) |
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Spangenberg's Sermons on Predestination of 1567 |
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205 | (1) |
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The Reasons for Spangenberg's Preaching on Predestination |
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205 | (4) |
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The Hermeneutical Basis of Spangenberg's Preaching on Predestination |
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209 | (2) |
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Spangenberg's Definition of God's Choosing His Children |
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211 | (9) |
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Opposition to Spangenberg |
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220 | (6) |
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226 | (10) |
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236 | (8) |
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VII The Formula of Concord |
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244 | (27) |
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244 | (4) |
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The Formula of Concord on Bound Choice and the Freedom of the Will |
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248 | (10) |
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On God's Eternal Foreknowledge and Election |
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258 | (7) |
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Continuing the Struggle with the Tension between God's Responsibility and Human Responsibility |
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265 | (6) |
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Conclusion: The Wittenberg Circle's Practice of Theology |
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271 | (20) |
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272 | (3) |
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The Members of the Wittenberg Circle |
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275 | (6) |
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The Students of Luther and Melanchthon |
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276 | (2) |
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278 | (3) |
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Receiving and Handing Down the Reformers' Message |
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281 | (10) |
| Notes |
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291 | (59) |
| Bibliography |
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350 | (21) |
| Index of Names |
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371 | (4) |
| Index of Subjects |
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375 | (3) |
| Index of Scripture References |
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