vol. 37, Issue #3

Online Journal Article: TENSIONS IN CALVIN'S VIEW OF FAITH: UNEXAMINED ASSUMPTIONS IN R. T. KENDALL'S CALVIN AND ENGLISH CALVINISM TO 1649 - STEPHEN THORSON* JETS 37/3 (September 1994) 413-426

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TENSIONS IN CALVIN'S VIEW OF FAITH:
UNEXAMINED ASSUMPTIONS IN R. T. KENDALL'S
CALVIN AND ENGLISH CALVINISM TO 1649 -
STEPHEN THORSON*
JETS 37/3 (September 1994) 413-426

Excerpt:
As a reaction to the works-righteousness that the Reformers saw in
Catholic sacerdotalism, the Reformation watchword sola fide represented a
needed turn to the object—that is, to God's word of promise. On the other
hand the Reformers' reaction to the ex opere operatum objectivity of the
Catholic sacraments represented a necessary turn to the subject—in this
case, to man's faith. Various Reformation theologies worked out different
solutions to the tension between God's grace and man's faith
--from the first page of the article