The Doctrine of Divine Love

‘This video is the start of a sequence of talks on the work The Doctrine of Divine Love by Ernst Sartorius. This primary video addresses the connection between theology and ethics, and the proposal supplied by Sartorius as to how these two disciplines come collectively.

This sequence on Sartorius is a part of the bigger sequence on the doctrine of the magical union. Sartorius exhibits how the magical union with God is rooted in love, and that love serves as the premise for the moral life.” from the video introduction

Sartorius, Ernst Wilhelm Christian

“Sartorius, Ernst Wilhelm Christian, One of many ablest, most fruitful, and genial theologians of recent orthodox Lutheranism, was born at Darmstadt, Might 10, 1797, and died at Königsberg June 13,1859. Whereas learning at Göttingen (1815-18), he fell below the earnest non secular affect of Planck. In 1819 he started to lecture within the College, and to supply the primary of these quite a few genial writings which have induced some to name him the St. John of Lutheranism. The primary that appeared was three essays — one on the Objective of Jesus in Founding the Church; the second on the Origin of the Gospels (afterwards disavowed); and the third on the Doctrine of Grace and Religion. Subsequent adopted (1821) the Lutheran Doctrine of Human Incapacity, wherein he opposed Schleiermacher. In 1821 he grew to become professor of theology at Marburg. Right here he issued two works, The Doctrine of Protestants as to the Respect because of the Civil Magistracy, and Faith Outdoors of the Limits of Mere Cause. In 1824 he acquired the doctorate and accepted a name to Dorpat. Right here appeared successively his Contributions to Evangelical Orthodoxy, wherein he opposed Röhr, Bretschneider, and Rationalism usually. In 1831 he issued his Dialogue of the Particular person and Work of Christ, which speedily handed by seven editions, and was translated into different languages. These two works drawn to him very basic consideration, as did additionally his contributions to Hengstenberg’s Church Journal, wherein appeared from 1834 to 1836 his vigorous assaults upon Möhler’s Symbolik. After eleven years of educational labor at Dorpat, he was known as to Prussia in 1835, and appointed to the place of superintendent-general of the province of Prussia and director of the royal consistory. He entered upon his duties with a sermon within the royal court-church at Königsberg in December. In 1840 he started his work on ethical theology, Die Lehre von der heiligen Liebe, which, with its modifications and its revisions for brand spanking new editions, occupied him till 1856, and which he justly thought to be his chief title to a spot on the earth of theology. The actions of the fanatical ‘Buddies of Mild’ induced Sartorius to challenge, in 1845, a piece on the Necessity and Obligatoriness of the Creeds. In 1852 appeared his work on Primitive Worship, the Priesthood, and the Sacraments; in 1853 his Defence of the Augsburg Confession; and in 1855 his Meditations on the

Superb Manifestations of God in his Church and on the Presence of the Glorified Physique of Christ within the Eucharist. After a ministry of twenty-four years, he died within the midst of his labors. The day earlier than his decease he had labored upon a big polemical work towards Romanism, printed afterwards (1860) by his son, below the title Soli Deo Gloria! A Comparability of Lutheranism and Romanism within the Mild of the Augsburg and the Tridentine Confessions, with Particular Reference to Möhler’s Symbolik. As much as the tip of his life he was a zealous contributor to Hengstenberg’s Church Journal. A few of his later papers have been of a really extreme polemical character. Just a few of his sermons have been printed. See Kurtz, Church Historical past (Eng. transl.), 2, 372; Wuttke, Christian Ethics, 2, 374; Herzog, Actual-Encyklop. 13, 426-428; Hagenbach, Hist. of Doctrines, 2, 414, 406, 494. (J.P.L.)” from the article: Sartorius, Ernst Wilhelm Christian