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The views set forth in this volume are certainly one-sided—and purposely so, in order to form a conscious counter-argument to the accepted Protestant “mythology,” of Martin Luther. The objective Christian student of 16th-century Church history needs to consult works written from a critical Catholic (as well as Protestant) perspective, in order to foster a closer examination—and perhaps a partial...

Luther’s revolutionary notion of bene operando peccamus is similar to John Calvin’s more developed doctrine of total depravity. Both are expressly unbiblical. The Bible (as I will seek to demonstrate below) teaches no such doctrine of “sin is present no matter what good works we do, if we don’t do them with absolutely perfect intentions and sanctity”. Nor does it teach that unregenerate men or those who haven’t heard the gospel can do no truly (intrinsically) good works whatsoever, nor that they
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