Shepherds of the Empire by Correll Mark R

Author:Correll, Mark R. [Mark R. Correll]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4514-7986-7
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2014-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

Ibid., 183–84.↵

Schlatter, “Meine Erfahrung,” 114–15.↵

This obviously also excluded the radical pristinarian pursuits of many orthodox Protestant theologians to recapture the exact faith of the apostles of the early church. Schlatter, “New Testament Theology,” 182–84.↵

State Church Archive, Stuttgart, Adolf Schlatter Archive, “Die älteste Christenheit und die Bibel,” D 40 #193.↵

Schlatter, Einleitung, 480.↵

Schlatter, Das christliche Dogma, 366–68.↵

Schlatter was the only believing theologian of his day to write an independent systematic ethics, since most others included ethics as merely one arm of their dogmatic teaching. Twenty years later, Karl Barth mercilessly attacked Schlatter for the division between doctrine and ethics that he implied. Barth claimed that such a divide between doctrine and practice was a gross error of theology. But Schlatter never saw his action as fundamentally separating two elements of Christian belief. He simply held that these two elements of Christianity, its faith and its action, require a different verbiage and formulation. He pointed to the New Testament authors and argued that they, too, created a bipartite division in their writings, separating the practice of Christianity from faith in Christ. In Paul’s writings, the apostle uniformly began his letters with theological treatises and concluded with practical application. Schlatter insisted that morality and faith are inseparable even if their systematic description, as an academic exercise, separates them.↵

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