Was Staupitz successful? The rest of Luther’s story proves his mentor did succeed. For this reason, Staupitz may have saved the Reformation before it started. Perhaps there is justification for labeling Staupitz a forerunner after all.
If Luther was trained in Aristotelian realism, then he was basically trained as a Thomist. You can say at least he was trained similarly to how Thomas was trained. I think much of Thomas's work came from expanding on Augustine too. Augustine definitely believed in imputed grace at the moment of faith. As an aside, I like the word "reckoned" better than "imputed" for describing justification. Older translations of the NASB use it.
The idea of purgatory sounds heretical to me. If Jesus paid our penalty on the cross, then why would a person have to pay money to a church or spend time in a quasi-hell to pay a penalty? It takes away what Jesus did and puts that action back on people to perform. I think Luther was right to focus his dissent on that issue.
If Luther was trained in Aristotelian realism, then he was basically trained as a Thomist. You can say at least he was trained similarly to how Thomas was trained. I think much of Thomas's work came from expanding on Augustine too. Augustine definitely believed in imputed grace at the moment of faith. As an aside, I like the word "reckoned" better than "imputed" for describing justification. Older translations of the NASB use it.
The idea of purgatory sounds heretical to me. If Jesus paid our penalty on the cross, then why would a person have to pay money to a church or spend time in a quasi-hell to pay a penalty? It takes away what Jesus did and puts that action back on people to perform. I think Luther was right to focus his dissent on that issue.
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