Luther, Karlstadt, Muntzer

Question 1

Where Luther parts with Karlstadt and Muntze; Luther is against…(5)

Answer 1

Luther is against: 
1. destruction of images,
2. cessation of infant baptism
3. cessation of Lord’s Supper 
4. Presence of Christ in bread and wine
5. the evil of a
spirited theology that led to insurrection

Question 2

Karlstadt radicalism (5)

Answer 2

1. communion of both kinds to the laity
2. images removed from Church
3. infant baptism discontinued
4. Lord’s supper interpreted as memorial of Christ’s death
5. Theology of Regeneration

Question 3

where did K remove images from church and discontinue infant baptism?

Answer 3

Orlamunde

Question 4

Difference between theology of regeneration vs theology of justification

Answer 4

Theology of Regeneration: inner witness of the spirit

Theology of Justification: the external word of God’s promise.

Question 5

Why Theo of Regeneration?

Answer 5

justification is agency that makes uneducated laity dependent on the educated
theologian

Instead he advocated communal reform through internal spirit:

Question 6

Where are K and M similar?

Answer 6

inner spirit and inner experience

Question 7

Muntzer: solo experientia

Answer 7

doctrine of a living word of God, an experiential theology, replaces sola scriptura

The living Word of God must be heard from God’s own
mouth and not from books, even scripture (Lindberg, pg. 141). inner oriented
hearing

Question 8

Muntzer’s radicalism (3)

Answer 8

anti-cleric, anti formalist, and apocalyptic

Question 9

mysticism is basis for revolution

Answer 9

Muntzer: spirit leads from inner order to change the outer order

Question 10

Luther’s radicalism

Answer 10

indulgences; word of god is witness

Question 11

Where does Muntzer find evidence supporting sola experientia?

Answer 11

2 Corinthians 3 “the law is written in the heart:” active spirit of God is within the individual