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Often appears with: logic, method, and demonstration · unintelligible forms · the human body and its parts · ten commandments · substantial forms · sin, guilt, and repentance · reason and the intellect · original sin · law reveals sin · fruitless inquiry
Usually: crisis of belief (2) · argument (1) · commentary or gloss (1) · censure (1) · skepticism (1)
He criticizes scholastic “substantial forms,” saying that claims that they distinguish true species lead to fruitless and unintelligible inquiries we scarcely comprehend at all.
13. The Nominal Essence that of the Species, as conceived by us, proved from Water and Ice. But to return to the species of corporeal substances. If I should ask any one whether ice and water were two distinct species of things, I doubt not but I should be answered in the affirmative: and it cannot be denied but he that says they are two distinct species is in the right. But if an Englishman bred in Jamaica, who per…
Luther defines original sin as coming from Adam and spreading to all people, rejects scholastic claims about intact human nature and works, and explains how the law reveals sin and provokes wrath.
[Again,] that it is not founded upon Scripture that for a good work the Holy Ghost with His grace is necessary. Such and many similar things have arisen from want of understanding and ignorance as regards both this sin and Christ, our Savior and they are truly heathen dogmas, which we cannot endure. For if this teaching were right [approved], then Christ has died in vain, since there is in man no defect nor sin for …