Another romantic aspect includes "my lady- in line 13, which can be equivalent to "milady-, a medieval civility (May 3). ... Throughout his life, religion became more essential to him and he constantly evaluated his mind-set and opinions pertaining to creed and philosophy (Bloom, Samuel T., 13-14). ...
" It should not be neglected that much of Luther's writings on original sin owe heavy contribution to Augustine: "Luther believed justification was a doctrine taught in Scripture, and so reached back beyond the subjectivism of medieval theology to Augustine and Paul.... An Augustine who used Greek philosophy to formulate his thoughts on theodicy. ...
One traditional Christian view of survival of death runs, in outline form, something like this: On some future day all the dead will be bodily raised, both the righteous and the unrighteous alike, to be judged by God ; and the guarantee and model of the general resurrection (i.e., the raising of the dead in the last days) is the already accomplished resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.My aim in this paper is to explain and defend this basic view of resurrection. There are many ways it might be understood, of course, and perhaps more than one is coherent and even from a Christian point o...
