Tag: Lutheran

  • Defining Semi-Pelagianism – the Lutheran Take

    While Reformed Theodore Beza (1556) and Roman Catholic Nicholas Sanders (1571) may have been the first to use the label “Semi-Pelagianism,” the first (and perhaps only) conciliar use of the term is in the Lutheran Epitome or Formula of Concord (1577). “The Formula of Concord contains,” according to Nicholas Hoppmann (link to article), “the most…