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§G4.

1)EPY)KMATI0XS OF

THEOLOGY

[Div. Ill

theology where the conviction that one knows Confessional indifferentism

many

this, for

of

may

things

is

wanting.

is

in irreconcilable conflict

lie in

with

the farthest circumference

which are not attached to his but these do not belong to our conBut that which one confesses, one must mean of

each one's conviction

personal consciousness fession. this

;

we must

be certain;

must be made

now

;

for this

;

if

necessary, the greatest sacrifice

if

needs

be, the sacrifice of life.

That

this confessional conviction in the Lutheran Church

is

different from that in the Eastern, and in the Reformed than in the Church of Rome, certainly does not depend upon our

This difference is connected, rather, with our position in life and genealogy. No objection should ever be raised on tliat account, however, against the reality of our conviction, since the entire world of our representations, those of the non-religious kind also, are determined by the circle from which we spring and the age in which we live the Pelagian only may encounter some difficulty personal preference.

;

here, because he does not believe in a divine plan,

determines our whole position; but, for the viction ever strikes deeper root than when

rest, it

who

He, therefore, prepared atavisticall}' in us. way obtained his conviction as one with his ascribe its possession to his

thanks for

it

to the grace of

own

God.

which

no conhas been

has in this

life,

does not

excellencies, but renders

A

true theologian, there-

must hold for real and true the theology which he embraces, and to the further development of which he devotes his life, and should not hesitate to consider all fore,

will and

other theology to be deformation.

who

is

A

Lutheran theologian,

not firmly convinced of the truth of his om'h confes-

sion and

who

has no courage to denounce all theology which

is

opposed to

is

true of the

it as

deformation, has lost his way.

Romish

theologian.

And we

as

The same Reformed

theologians stand equally firm in our unshakable conviction

which we move, runs the most accuand that every other track leads to lesser or greater

that the track, along rately,

deformation.

But

tliough from his

own

point of view no single theolo-

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