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Pneumatology, Or the Doctrine of the Work of the Holy Spirit : Outline Netme,Library EiMe-'m Nazarene (College GOULD LIBRARY EASTERN NAZARENE COLLEGE 0 © 0 0 0 O 0 0 0 O 0 0 0 0 © 90 9 0 0 A GIFT 0 0 0 9 0 0 © 0 to 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Eastern Nazarene College 0 0 0 09 0 from 0 0 0 0 the Library of 0 O 0 © 0 0 © 0 WILBUR H. MULLEN 0 0 © © 0 te000000000©00000000000©0000000030 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2015 https://archive.org/details/pneumatologyordoOOweid A System of Dogmatics OUTLINE NOTES BASED ON LUTHARDT AND KRAUTH 1. Introduction to Dogmatics. Second Ed. 1896. 2. Th60logic. 1902. 3. Anthropologia. 1912. 4. Christologia. 1913. 5. Soteriologia. 1914. 6. Pneumatologia. 1915. 12.THE DOCTRINE CONCERNING THE CHURCH. 7. The Doctrine of the Church. 1903. 8. The Doctrine of Holy Scripture. In press. 9. The Doctrine of Holy Baptism. 10. The Doctrine of the Lord's Supper. 11. The Doctrine of the Ministry. 1907. The Doctrine of the Last Things. BY Revere Franklin Weidner, D. D., LL. D. Professor and Doctor of Theology in the Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary at Maywood, 111. Chicago IVartburg Publishing House Pneumatology or The Doctrine of the Work OF THE Holy Spirit OUTLINE NOTES BASED ON LUTHARDT AND KRAUTH BY Revere Franklin Weidner, D.D., LL.D. Professor of Theology in the Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary at Maywood. 111. Chicago fVarthurg Publishing House Luthtran Literature i:^f vv ' 3 7 THE FOLLOWING PAGES ARE DEDICATED TO MY DEAR AND VALUED FRIEND MR. JOHN P. WEYERHAEUSER AS A TOKEN OF THE CLOSE FRIENDSHIP AND HAPPY ASSOCIATIONS OF THE PAST THIRTY YEARS I M ,'" ' ••;. 4 PREFACE We now come to the most practical of all the different parts of doctrine and to that which has most to do with our daily life. It treats of the Work of the Holy Spirit, or The Order of the Work of Grace, or of the manner and order in which as individuals we grow in grace as mem- bers of the Kingdom of God. We have sought to make clear from Scripture the way in which God seeks to draw to Himself through Christ every individual soul, and lead him finally by His grace to eternal glory. We have ex- pounded the various Works of Grace in their logical order, Calling, Illumination, Regeneration, Conversion, including Repentance and Faith, Justification, Mystical Union, Sanctification and Good Works, and have tried to explain all questions that would arise. In our discussion we have taken Regeneration in its narrow sense, as the beginning of the New Life, not in its broad sense as meaning the same as Conversion, including Repentance and Faith, and we have carefully explained in what sense and why the Lutheran Church teaches the Baptismal Re- generation of Infants. This work has not been written “with a running pen,’’ but is the outgrowth of thirty-five years of lectures and discussions of the class room, and the continued study of Scripture passages bearing on the subject. It has been the indirect means, by the grace of God of developing more richly the inner and spiritual life of the writer, in that it has brought out the rich treasures of VII. PREFACE God’s Word in more direct bearing upon his heart and soul, and though the book has been especially prepared for students of theology and the younger clergy, still much of it is of such a devotional character, that we hope all intelligent Christians seeking for guidance in the teaching of God’s Word will find much that will be of the greatest help to them in their Christian life. The table of contents gives a clear indication of the fulness of the discussion, and the Examination Questions and the Index, at the close of the volume, has been pre- pared to be of special service to students in reviewing and in preparing the subject for examination. R. F. WEIDNER. Epiphany 1915 CHICAGO LUTHERAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY MAYWOOD, ILL. CONTENTS PNEUMATOLOGY, 1, OR THE DOCTRINE OF THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. Sections Pages 2. Introduction 17, 18 1. Division of Dogmatics 17 2. Division of Pneumatology 18 THE APPROPRIATION OF THE FELLOWSHIP OF GOD. 3—6. 1. The personal appropriation of salvation.. 19 2. The arrangement of the material 19 3. The order of Grace according to Hollaz.. 19 4. This order vindicated 19 I. THE GRACE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 7— 12. 1. The Scripture Doctrine 21—^23 1. Definition of Grace 21 2. Manner of manifestation 21 3. The active principle of salvation 21 4. Stands in antithesis to merit and work, to sin and corruption 22 5. The Grace of the Holy Spirit 22 6. The principle of the new life 23 13—28. 2. The Church Doctrine 23—27 1. Teaching of the Greek Church 23 2. Teaching of Augustine 23 3. The relation of Grace to the human will and works 23 4. Statement in Luther’s Small Catechism 24 5. In Formula of Concord 24 6. The Order of Grace 24 7. Difficulty of separating the acts of Grace 24 8. Definition of the Dogmaticians 24—27 1. Grace 24 2. Prevenient Grace 25 2 CONTENTS. 5. Co-operating Grace 25 6. Preserving Grace 26 7. Glorifying Grace 26 8. Assisting and Indwelling Grace 26 9. Effects of the working of Grace 27 10. The four-fold office of the Holy Spirit 27 29, 30. 3. Later Development 28 1. Mysticism 28 2. Rationalism and Supernaturalism 28 11. CALLING OR VOCATION. 31—37. 1. The Scripture Doctrine 29—31 1. Calling is the first act of Grace 29 2. Illustration by Christ’s actions 29 3. Illustration in the ministry of the Apostles 30 4. Illustration in God’s activity in our salvation 30 5. The Call is earnest 30 6. It is urgent 31 7. It is for the whole race 31 8. It has been gradual 31 38—56. 2. The Church Doctrine 31—41 1. Definition of Call 31 2. Remarks on Luthardt’s criticism 32 3. Definition of General or Indirect Call.. 32 4. Definition of Special or Direct Call 33 5. Lutheranism and Calvinism contrasted.. 34 6. The Call is serious 34 7. The Call is efficacious 34 8. Quenstedt’s definition of the form of the Call 35 9. His description of the Calvinistic position 35 10. The Call is universal 36 11. Our old Dogmaticians on its universality 36 12. The true solution suggested 37 13. Results of modern research 37 14. Testimony of Hollaz 38 3. Preparing Grace 25 4. Operating Grace 25 CONTENTS. 3 15. Why some nations are destitute of the Gospel 38 16. The fault lies with us 39 17. Statement of Quenstedt 39 18. Further discussion of the subject 39 III. ILLUMINATION. 57—59. 1. The Scripture Doctrine 42—43 1. Scripture description of the natural man 2. Christ represented as the light of the world 42 3. The word brings light 43 4. The work of the Spirit of God 43 60—^93. 2. The Church Doctrine 44—56 1. The tendency of the Greek Church.... 44 2. Baptism and illumination identified.... 44 3. Similar usage in Syriac version 44 4. The topic of illumination first separately treated by Hollaz 44 5. Condition of unilluminated man 45 6. The goal of illumination 45 7. The design of illumination 45 8. Precedes conversion 46 9. Definition of illumination 46 10. Illumination is both teaching grace and annointing grace 46 11. Not confined to the regenerate 47 12. Illumination is legal and evangelical.... 47 13. The Holy Spirit illuminates through means 48 14. The question of sensible assurance ex- amined 48 15. God's plan 49 16. Illumination not bound to the personal act of hearing or reading the Word.... 49 17. Teaching of the mystics 49 18. The mystics answered 50 19. The will must be enlightened as well as the intellect 50 20. The enlightenment of the intellect pre- cedes that of the will 50 4 CONTENTS. 21. Explanation of John 7:17 51 22. The case of Balaam 51 23. The case of Judas Iscariot 51 24. A fuller answer to mysticism 52 25. Imperfect illumination 52 26. Perfect illumination 52 27. Statement of Quenstedt 52 28. Statement of Hollaz 53 29. Illumination a gradual process 54 30. Statement by Hollaz 54 31. The awakening 54 32. Statement by Martensen 55 33. Statement by Thomasius 55 34. Difference between illumination and regeneration 55 35. Difference between illumination and sanctification 56 IV. REGENERATION IN ITS NARROW SENSE. 94—116. 1. The Scripture Doctrine 57—65 1. Usage of the word Regeneration 57 2. Two-fold usage in the New Testament.. 57 3. Usage in our Confessions 58 4. Usage by our dogmaticians 59 5. We use it in the strictest sense 59 6. The New Testament teaching as to the spiritual nature of man 60 7. Its teaching of the pneuma or spirit 60 8. Difference between the pneuma and psyche 60 9. The spirit is the principle of life 61 10. Spirit forms the basis of the communion of the new creation 62 11. The New Testament teaching of the psyche 63 12. Meaning of Hebrews 4 : 12 64 13. Meaning of I. Thess. 5 : 23 65 14. Difference between pneuma and psyche 65 117—153. 2. General Discussion 65—79 1. The New Birth in the light of Biblical psychology 65 — CONTENTS. 5 2. The spirit and soul of man before the Fall 65 3. The spirit and soul after the Fall 65—66 4.
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