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E Reformation Mcmaster Divinity College Press Mcmaster General Studies Series, Volume 13 E Reformation e Reformation McMaster Divinity College Press McMaster General Studies Series, Volume 13 e Reformation Past Voices, Current Implications edited by S!"#"$ M. S!%&"'()"* ($& G+*&+$ L. H"(!, THE REFORMATION Past Voices, Current Implications McMaster General Studies Series, Volume /0 McMaster Divinity College Press Copyright © 232/ Wipf and Stock Publishers. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be repro - duced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers, /55 W. 6th Ave., Suite 0, Eugene, OR 5783/. Pickwick Publications McMaster Divinity College Press An Imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers /263 Main Street West /55 W. 6th Ave., Suite 0 Hamilton, ON, Canada Y6= 8)/ Eugene, OR 5783/ www.wipfandstock.com 9(9"*'(;) <='$: 576-/-72>2-6737-> ,(*&;+#"* <='$: 576-/-72>2-6736-2 "'++) <='$: 576-/-72>2-6735-5 Cataloguing-in-Publication data: Names: Studebaker, Steven M., editor. | Heath, Gordon L., editor. Title: e Reformation : past voices, current implications / edited by Steven M. Studebaker and Gordon L. Heath Description: Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 232/. | McMaster General Studies Series /0. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identi@ers: <='$ 576-/-72>2-6737-> (paperback). | <='$ 576-/-72>2-6736-2 (hard - cover) | <='$ 576-/-72>2-6735-5 (ebook). Subjects: LCSH: Christian universities and colleges. | Christian education. Classi@cation: XXKKK XKK 232/ (print). | XXKKK (ebook). Manufactured in the U.S.A. 30//Q/2/ Contents Contributors | vii / Introduction | / 2 Martin Luther and the Origins of the Reformation —Victor A. Shepherd | // 0 Luther, the Ninety-Five eses, and Ecumenism: at ey May be One in 23/7 —James Keller | 25 8 omas Cranmer, Roger Martyn, and the Transformation of Worship in the English Reformation —Gwenfair Walters Adams | >6 > Calvin, the Anabaptists, and Tradition —W. David Buschart | 62 Q Anti-Semitism in the Reformation Era —Victor A. Shepherd | /32 7 Appropriating Reformation Tradition(s) Today: Should We Put the Past Behind Us? —W. David Buschart | //> 6 More “Unintended Consequences”: How the Reformation (Mis)Shaped the Church for Mission in North America —David Fitch | /0> 5 William Byrd and the Musical Reshaping of Liturgy in Reformation England: Insights for Worship in a Post-Christian Context —Wendy J. Porter | />2 /3 Imperishable Seed: A Sermon for the >33th Anniversary of the Reformation —Jennifer Powell McNutt | /60 Index of Names | /57 Index of Subjects | 23/ Contributors EDITORS Steven M. Studebaker (PhD, Marquette University) is the Howard and Shirley Bentall Chair in Evangelical ought and Professor of Systematic and Historical eology at McMaster Divinity College. He is the author of A Pentecostal Political !eology for American Renewal (Palgrave, 23/Q), From Pentecost to the Triune God (Eerdmans, 23/2), and several other books on Jonathan Edwards’ Trinitarian theology and Pentecostal theology. Gordon L. Heath (PhD, St. Michael’s College), FRHistS, is Professor of Christian History and Centenary Chair in World Christianity at McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, Ontario. He also serves as Director of the Ca- nadian Baptist Archives. His publications include !e British Nation is Our Nation: !e BACSANZ Baptist Press and the South African War, "#$$–"$%& (Paternoster, 23/7) and A War with a Silver Lining: Canadian Protestant Churches and the South African War, "#$$–"$%& (MQUP, 2335). CONTRIBUTORS Gwenfair Walters Adams (PhD, Cambridge University) is Professor of Church History at Gordon-Conwell eological Seminary. She is the author of Visions in Late Medieval England and the editor of the Romans "–# volume of the Reformation Commentary on Scripture series (Inter- Varsity Press). W. David Buschart is Professor of eology and Historical Studies at Denver Seminary. His research and writing has focused on the nature and function of tradition and traditions within Protestantism, comparative Protestant theologies, and theologies of retrieval. He is currently studying vii C'()*+/0)'*1 the theological frameworks guiding evangelical work in creation care, so- cial justice, and faith and work. David Fitch (PhD, Northwestern University) is B. R. Lindner Chair of Evangelical eology at Northern Seminary, Chicago. He works and writes within the @elds of Neo-Anabaptist theology, missiology, culture studies, and political theory. He is an ordained pastor in the Christian and Mis- sionary Alliance and currently co-pastors the Peace of Christ Church of Westmont IL, USA. James Keller is Pastor of Historic St Paul’s Lutheran Church in Kitchener, ON. A former pharmacist, Keller is a graduate of Concordia Lutheran eological Seminary in St. Catharines, ON, and received his PhD in Christian eology from McMaster Divinity College. He is married and has a daughter. Wendy J. Porter is Associate Professor of Music and Worship at McMaster Divinity College. She teaches courses in Ministry Studies in areas of wor- ship studies, liturgy, spiritual discernment, and theological rezection on the intersection of faith, work, and worship, and she plans and leads cha- pels throughout the academic year with a team of talented and committed graduate students. Jennifer Powell McNutt is the Franklin S. Dyrness Associate Professor of Biblical & eological Studies at Wheaton College. She has received awards for her teaching and scholarship including the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize by the American Society of Church History for her mono- graph, Calvin Meets Voltaire: !e Clergy of Geneva in the Age of Enlighten- ment, "2#3–"4$# (Ashgate, 23/8). She is a Fellow in the Royal Historical Society as well as an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA). Victor Shepherd , a minister of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, is Pro- fessor Emeritus at Tyndale University, Professorial Fellow (Core Faculty) at Wycli~e College (University of Toronto), and Professor Ordinarius at Uni- versity of Oxford, UK. A specialist in Reformation eology and History, he has addressed audiences in Canada, the USA, and Great Britain. As a student of Christian Anti-Semitism he is a frequent speaker in synagogues, churches, and high schools. He is married to Maureen McGuigan. ey have two children and @ve grandchildren. viii Martin Luther and the Origins of the Reformation V<;!+* A. S,"9,"*& ! <= M(*;, />8>. Luther has eleven months to live. He is not terminally Iill. He has, however, been convicted of high treason, a capital o~ence. Anyone assisting him will also be deemed treasonous and, if caught, ex- ecuted. Condemned by the Pope as a heretic since />23, he has been an outlaw of the Holy Roman Empire since />2/. Anyone who assassinates him will be rewarded. He can never forget that life is short and death is sure. Now he is reviewing his vast written output, @ne-tuning theological expositions that have convulsed Europe, infuriated church authorities, pro- voked academic debate, and above all comforted millions as they found themselves newly assured that the arms of the cruci@ed Savior held them securely in a grip on them that would always be stronger than their grip on him. At this time—March />8>—Luther is revisiting the complete edition of his Latin writings. While his Latin writings span decades, the preface to them is new, and one of the last items he will pen. Listen to him as he takes us back to an earlier moment in his life and theological career: I had indeed been captivated with an extraordinary ardor for un- derstanding Paul in the Epistle to the Romans . a single word in chapter /[:/7], ‘In it the righteousness of God is revealed’ . had stood in my way. For I hated that word ‘righteousness of God,’ which, according to the use and custom of all the teachers, I had // T R been taught to understand philosophically regarding the formal or active righteousness, as they called it, with which God is righteous and punishes sinners. I hated the righteous God who punishes sinners, and secretly . I was angry with God . the gospel threat - ening us with his righteousness and wrath. us I raged with a @erce and troubled conscience. At last, by the mercy of God, meditating day and night, I gave heed to the context of the words . ‘He who through faith is righteous shall live.’ ere I began to understand that the righteousness of God . by which the righteous lives, is a gi of God, namely faith. Here I felt that I was altogether born again and had entered paradise itself through open gates. ere a totally other face of the entire Scripture showed itself to me. ereupon . I also found in other terms an analogy, as, the work of God, that is, what God does in us, the power of God, with which he makes us strong, the wisdom of God, with which he makes us wise. 1 What had been Luther’s experience prior to this moment when the righ- teousness of God, so far from being that gi of God, owned in faith, which renders sinners rightly related to him, had instead been understood to be unrelieved condemnation that God, righteous in himself, visited upon hopelessly guilty sinners forever unrighteous in themselves? HIS EARLY YEARS Luther’s experience, circumstantially his alone, inwardly appeared no dif- ferent from the experience of humankind. For instance, death looms for everyone. One hundred-and-@y years before Luther’s era, the Black Death (bubonic plague) had carried o~ 83 percent to 8> percent of Europe. ree of Luther’s friends had recently succumbed to a fresh outbreak. Only days ago one of his best friends died suddenly. Hunting one day with a compan- ion, Luther accidentally fell on his dagger, severing an artery. He pressed his hand in his groin to stem the haemorrhage while his companion procured help, aware that he had come within a hair’s breadth of death. Later, when Luther was walking near the town of Stotternheim, a thunderstorm over- took him.
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