Full Text for Dogmatics 2- Volume 72 - AC IV "for Christ's sake"? (Video)

ROUGHLY EDITED COPY CUENet AUDIO TRANSCRIPTION DOGMATICS 2 LESSON 72 Captioning Provided By: Caption First, Inc. 10 E. 22nd Street Suite 304 Lombard, IL 60148 800-825-5234 *** This text is being provided in a rough draft format. Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) is provided in order to facilitate communication accessibility and may not be a totally verbatim record of the proceedings. *** >> I'm going back to the wording of Article IV. Why does the Augsburg Confession add the phrase "for Christ's sake"? Isn't that pretty obvious? >> DR. DAVID MAXWELL: Well, you might think so. As Christians we're obviously interested very much in Christ. But I think that that phrase has a specific purpose in Article IV of the Augsburg Confession. And that is -- and this is similar to what we've been saying all along. That "for Christ's sake," direct your attention to Christ rather than in us. And that is I think the contrast here to keep in mind as say the Augustinian view in which salvation is really happening inside as the Holy Spirit transforms us. So there's more of an emphasis on Holy Spirit actually in the transformation of the heart. Whereas in Lutheran theology, the "for Christ's sake" describes justification as happening outside of us. And that's why that term is there. *** This text is being provided in a rough draft format. Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) is provided in order to facilitate communication accessibility and may not be a totally verbatim record of the proceedings. ***