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SOVEREIGNTY, FREEWILL AND SALVATION PROF. M. M. NINAN CHAPTER FOUR CALVINISM Romans 9:15 "I (God) will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion. "It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God's mercy. Although there had been significant earlier attempts to reform the Roman Catholic Church before Luther – such as those of Jan Hus, Peter Waldo, and John Wycliffe – Martin Luther is widely acknowledged to have started the Reformation with his 1517 work The Ninety-Five Theses. 37
SOVEREIGNTY, FREEWILL AND SALVATION PROF. M. M. NINAN Luther began by criticizing the sale of indulgences, insisting that the Pope had no authority over purgatory and that the Catholic doctrine of the merits of the saints had no foundation in the gospel. The Protestant position, however, would come to incorporate doctrinal changes such as a complete reliance on Scripture as a source of proper belief (sola scriptura) and the belief that only faith, and not good deeds, bring salvation (sola fide). The core motivation behind these changes was theological, though many other factors played a part, including the rise of nationalism, the Western Schism that eroded faith in the Papacy, the perceived corruption of the Roman Curia, the impact of humanism, and the new learning of the Renaissance that questioned much traditional thought. A generation divided John Calvin from Martin Luther, whom he never met. Yet they were almost always referred together in the context of protestant reformation. “This man, John Calvin undoubtedly the greatest of Protestant divines, and perhaps, after St. Augustine, the most perseveringly followed by his disciples of any Western writer on theology, was born at Noyon in Picardy, France, 10 July, 1509, and died at Geneva, 27 May, 1564. 38
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