For making his anti-synergistic utterances Schmauk was called to order by Dr.
This subtle synergistic spirit attacks the very foundation of Lutheranism, flows out into almost every doctrine, and weakens the Church at every point.
Synergism in the doctrine of conversion naturally leads to synergistic teaching on predestination.
The synergistic note was struck much more frequently and emphatically.
Moreover, the doctrine of predestination is, as it were, the bacteriological test whether one's Lutheran blood is really and absolutely free from synergistic infection also in the doctrines of conversion and justification.
This synergistic view in his last years involved the theologian of the German Reformation in serious trouble.
To the Arminian view, that regeneration is the act of man, cooeperating with divine influences applied through the truth (synergistic theory), we object that no beginning of holiness is in this way conceivable.
Saponins are not synergisticwith digitalis therapeutically; on the contrary, they exert a purely deleterious action on the heart when they enter the circulation.
The liver and the spleen are so intimately interdependent, that the addition of a splenary extract to the liver extract is a signal improvement from which a synergistic action results.
The fourth is that of the semi-Pelagians who in the Western theology intermingle synergisticelements of an Antiochean complexion.
The synergistic orientals, however, could not be convinced of the dangerous character of his carefully guarded doctrine.
The second article of the Formula of Concord, which decided the questions involved in the Synergistic Controversy, takes a clear, determined, and consistent stand against all forms and formulas of synergism.
Following are some of the synergistic deliverances made by Pfeffinger in his Five Questions Concerning the Liberty of the Human Will.
The same applies to the Variata of 1540 in which the frequent "adiuvari" there employed, though not incorrect as such, was not without a synergistic flavor.
The unmistakably synergistic doctrine embodied in the Loci of 1548, as well as in the Leipzig Interim, did not cause alarm and attract attention immediately.
It is not merely opposed to Pelagian, Semi-Pelagian and synergistic errors, but to Stoic and Calvinistic aberrations as well.
Seeberg characterizes Melanchthon's doctrine as follows: "A synergistic trait therefore appears in his doctrine.
In reality he probably had never fully grasped the truly religious and evangelical view of Luther, which, indeed, would account for his later synergistic deviations as well as for the charges of Stoicism he preferred against Luther.
Perhaps the unpleasant experiences following upon his innovations in the doctrine of good works acted as a check also on the public development of his synergistic tendencies.
This synergistic element reappears in his doctrine of election.
An opportunity was also found in treating of the synergistic questions to set forth the doctrine of predestination, although within the Lutheran church no real controversy on this subject had ever arisen.
The antinomian and synergistic controversies, Osiander, Major and Flacius, the Philippists and the Crypto-Calvinists are names that still remind us of the theological carnage of the sixteenth century.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in us (unless this involves synergistic heresy), let us cultivate tolerance and live peaceably with all men, especially with all Lutherans.
