13 Facts About Lutheran orthodoxy

Lutheran orthodoxy was an era in the history of Lutheranism, which began in 1580 from the writing of the Book of Concord and ended at the Age of Enlightenment.

Lutheran orthodoxy was paralleled by similar eras in Calvinism and tridentine Roman Catholicism after the Counter-Reformation.

Lutheran orthodoxy scholasticism developed gradually, especially for the purpose of disputation with the Jesuits, and it was finally established by Johann Gerhard .

Late Lutheran orthodoxy was torn by influences from rationalism and pietism.

Pietism became a rival of Lutheran orthodoxy but adopted some orthodox devotional literature, such as those of Arndt, Scriver and Stephan Pratorius, which have often been later mixed with pietistic literature.

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Lutheran orthodoxy was deeply influenced by two tutors, Bartholomaeus Arnoldi von Usingen and Jodocus Trutfetter, who taught him to be suspicious of even the greatest thinkers, and to test everything himself by experience.

Lutheran orthodoxy began by carefully working through the Bible in the original languages while answering questions that had previously puzzled him.

Lutheran orthodoxy's tendency was to constantly support his arguments with what is known as biblical theology.

Lutheran orthodoxy understood biblical revelation to be progressive—building from the earlier books to the later ones—and examined his supporting texts in their literary contexts and historical settings.

Properly speaking, Lutheran orthodoxy scholasticism began in the 17th century, when the theological faculty of Wittenberg took up the scholastic method to fend off attacks by Jesuit theologians of the Second Scholastic Period of Roman Catholicism.

Lutheran orthodoxy noted that the scholastic method was inherently loaded with pitfalls.

Era of Lutheran orthodoxy is not well known, and it has been very often looked at only through the view of liberal theology and pietism and thus underestimated.

Lutheran orthodoxy can be reflected in such rulers as Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Altenburg and Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.