[Salvation]

This should be interesting. Funny that dogma is mentioned in the title. Hmmmm.

This is not a dogma in my opinion.

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Funny that dogma is mentioned in the title. Hmmmm. This is not a dogma in my opinion.

It is written by a Catholic, if approved, you'd be required to believe it is dogma. One doesn't want cafeteria placed before one's Catholicism.

[Belteshazzar]

At least the distinction between Luther and Calvin, as given in the excerpt, is accurate and truly defining, for which you are to be thanked for posting this. Lutherans and Calvinists are very different, no matter how much anyone would like to lump them together.

Also, I too found the use of the term “dogma” in the title a bit strange.

[HarleyD]

They were constrained by the logic of separating from Rome to defend their new doctrinal positions.

Sorry, from the Protestant founders perspective, they were going back to the teachings of the early church fathers. These doctrines were not new at all but what was taught by the early fathers. It is these same fathers, based upon statements that pepper the Catholic dictionary, that Catholics now call "bias", "racist", "sexist", not clear in their thinking, on and on and on. The have abandoned key doctrines such as atonement, justification, etc. Heck, you'll have some Catholics on this site who will argue that Paul was addled in his thinking.

Reformed Protestants are happy to rely upon the wisdom of the early fathers-even if we don't believe their writings raised to the same level as the scriptures. Catholics now believe scripture is just the same as Anselm writings.