English 233:  Introduction to Western Humanities - Baroque & Enlightenment

Note on "the Incarnation."

This entails being able to explain

the (revelatory) mission of Jesus, and

the logic of the Atonement through the Crucifixion.

Can you do this in general terms to doctrine notion of justification ?

Can you describe the divergence between the Augustinian and Thomistic theories of this (i.e., between the via moderna and the via antiqua?

Which of these two ways would it turn out that Luther and Calvin would favor?

Which would point the way for the Council of Trent?

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