Morning Prayer & Litany (Part 2)


For Ecclesiology (locus 6), Prof. Berkhof discusses the justification of infant baptism.

ODCC: Origen (185-254): an Alexandrian Biblical commentator, exegete, theologian and writer. Born in Egypt, raised in Alexandria, he traveled widely including Palestine. His father, Leonidas, was murdered in 202. Origen became the head of the Catechetical School at Alexandria. He heard Hippolytus in Rome. He was ordained by Palestinian bishops which annoyed the Alexandrian bishop. In 230, he went to Palestine and continued his literary works until death in 254.

For Apostolic Christianity, Vol. 1 (1-100) Prof. Schaff tries to describe Paul and other apostles, even imbibing the Petrine v. Pauline thesis of the Hegelians. Weird, but Schaff has his bad moments.

For Medieval Christianity, Vol. 4 (590-1073), Prof. Schaff comments on how the Pope gained lands through the document “Donation of Constantine” which Dante believed.

For the Swiss Reformation Vol. 8 (1519-1605), Prof. Schaff comments again on “ordinations” as without episcopal hands, e.g., Calvin being one and Luther ordaining “superintendents.”

For Dr. Cranmer, Prof. MacCulloch talks about the bitterness and fiscal discomfiture of Sir George Elyot, Cranmer’s ambassadorial successor.

For the Creeds of Christendom, Prof. Schaff chatters about Lutheran and Reformed Confessions.

1994 CCC: our infallibilists in paragraphs #345-349 discusses the 7th and 8th days of creation, the last one the resurrection of Christ and the new age.

Westminster Larger Catechism 176:

Q. 176. Wherein do the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's supper agree?
A. The sacraments of baptism and the Lord's supper agree, in that the author of both is God; the spiritual part of both is Christ and his benefits; both are seals of the same covenant, are to be dispensed by ministers of the gospel, and by none other; and to be continued in the church of Christ until his second coming.


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