The Pauline Ordo Salutis

Justification and law in the church: The theological background of reformed church law In reformed church law there is a connection between ecclesiastical structure (disciplina) and ecclesiastical doctrine (doctrina). Luther’s doctrine of justification disrupted the hierarchical structure of the church. For him, whose conception of the church started from the principle of the unique priesthood of Christ, church law was ius divinum. The Calvinists paid more attention to the church and her organisation than Luther did. Because they related the church order to the ordo salutis, the church came to serve the true doctrine, which is her primary characteristic.

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Perkins' A Golden Chaine: Predestinarian System or Schematized Ordo salutis?

Sixteenth Century Journal ◽

10.2307/3003740 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 68 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Richard A. Muller

Keyword(s):

Ordo Salutis

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The Humbling of ‘High Presumption’: Tobias Crisp Dismantles the Puritan Ordo Salutis

The Journal of Ecclesiastical History ◽

10.1017/s0022046904002143 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 56 (1) ◽

pp. 50-74 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

DAVID PARNHAM

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The Self ◽

Ordo Salutis ◽

Self Defence

Tobias Crisp presented a sophisticated, if highly tendentious, critique of the Puritan way to salvation. Having taken the view that the Puritan ordo salutis required of its practitioners a works-based devotion that sprang from a principal commitment to ‘law’ rather than ‘grace’, Crisp attacked both the theological and pastoral shortcomings of Puritanism. He then proceeded to develop a counter-theology of his own that promised a pastoral direction very different from that presided over by Puritan divines. This article addresses these dimensions of Crisp's discourse, and also assesses the self-defence mounted by Puritan respondents to Crisp.

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