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The Doctrinal Theology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Verified from the Original Sources is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Doctrinal Theology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church produces a comprehensive look at the complete development of Lutheran theology through the turn of the nineteenth century. Heinrich Schmid draws from 10 Protestant scholastics, compiling a dogmatic volume on old Lutheran theology, citing Melanchthon, Chemnitz, Gerhard, Hutterus, Hafenreffer, Calov, Quenstedt, Baier, Hollaz, and König as...

(3) “But the predicate infinite expresses the peculiar conception; for by this God, as an infinite Spirit, is distinguished from angels and the souls of men, or finite spirits, and by this infinity of his own, God transcends all the bounds of being, so that he cannot be limited by time or place or any other thing, but, considered simply in his own nature and essence, he is of himself and absolutely infinite. Nor do we speak of God as compounded, when we form both a common and a peculiar conception
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