Calvinist Flyswatter

Was it a Lutheran?

WAS IT A LUTHERAN WHO FIRST USED
THE EXPRESSION "ORDO SALUTIS"?

For sometime, I have tried to discover the origin of the usage of the expression, "ordo salutis," which is popular with some "Reformed" sources. (I call it the "ordo polutis" for it pollutes the truth).

I recently asked Christian philosopher, Michael Sudduth, if he knew the source of the "ordo salutis," and he replied, "Don't know. I suspect it originated in the later medieval period and was later appropriated by Reformed theologians."

If we can accept the validity of Baker's Dictionary of Theology (aka Wycliffe Dictionary of Theology), Everett F. Harrsion, Geoffrey W. Bromiley, and Carl F. H. Henry, Editors, the expression itself "appears to have been brought into theological usage in 1737 by Jakob Karpov, a Lutheran."

Doubtlessly, it probably did have a Pedobaptist origin. This within itself should put it under suspicion, especially when the contitutent elements presented are not consistent with Scriptural "order."

posted by Bob L. Ross @ 8:51 PM