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I've only recently come across the term Ordo Salutis, and it has largely been from our Reformed brethren. When Googling this it seems chiefly to be a Reformed idea--a systematic order of salvation.
When trying to find the Lutheran take on this, it is usually Reformed persons contrasting the Reformed position with the Lutheran position--but I cannot actually find a Lutheran position from a Lutheran source on the matter.
My instinct, based on my own knowledge of our theological tradition, is that we do not usually "do" Systematic Theology, at least not in the way our Reformed brethren do. Our theology isn't so much systematic as it is confessional, which I have generally taken as axiomatic and as one example of the difference between Lutherans and Reformed. Since we don't really "do" Systematic Theology, that there probably isn't much of an emphasis on an Ordo Salutis. But, again, this is really only my instinctual response--I don't know, hence the reason for my thread here to ask.
Do we have an Ordo Salutis?
Because it seems to me that, more-or-less, the Lutheran way of looking at things is to confess that our salvation is by grace alone through faith, the precise "order" of how this or that takes place isn't very important except that we confess that God alone accomplishes our salvation by grace alone, through faith, on Christ's account alone.
This question is chiefly the result of this thread here: https://www.christianforums.com/threads/is-regeneration-justification.8024417/ though I've noticed the topic of Ordo Salutis (a term I, for the most part, am new to) arise in several threads across CF.
-CryptoLutheran
When trying to find the Lutheran take on this, it is usually Reformed persons contrasting the Reformed position with the Lutheran position--but I cannot actually find a Lutheran position from a Lutheran source on the matter.
My instinct, based on my own knowledge of our theological tradition, is that we do not usually "do" Systematic Theology, at least not in the way our Reformed brethren do. Our theology isn't so much systematic as it is confessional, which I have generally taken as axiomatic and as one example of the difference between Lutherans and Reformed. Since we don't really "do" Systematic Theology, that there probably isn't much of an emphasis on an Ordo Salutis. But, again, this is really only my instinctual response--I don't know, hence the reason for my thread here to ask.
Do we have an Ordo Salutis?
Because it seems to me that, more-or-less, the Lutheran way of looking at things is to confess that our salvation is by grace alone through faith, the precise "order" of how this or that takes place isn't very important except that we confess that God alone accomplishes our salvation by grace alone, through faith, on Christ's account alone.
This question is chiefly the result of this thread here: https://www.christianforums.com/threads/is-regeneration-justification.8024417/ though I've noticed the topic of Ordo Salutis (a term I, for the most part, am new to) arise in several threads across CF.
-CryptoLutheran
