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Originally Posted by Ohio
Luther did not recover justification by faith.
Luther claimed he was a "Hussite," since he realized that John Huss had pioneered all these same truths 100 years earlier. The only difference between Luther and Huss, besides being from different centuries and different countries, was that the German nobility protected Luther, and not necessarily for reasons of the faith. They just hated Rome. Huss, however, was betrayed and martyred.
Read the stories of church history bro! WL was the worst historian of church history in the history of the church.
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What are your sources to say that Hus taught justification by faith alone? This article by ChristianityToday says otherwise:
unlike many other reformers, Hus retained much of Catholic theology. He did not teach the doctrine of justification by faith alone, a fact Luther noted when he observed that, unlike himself, Hus had attacked only the life, not the doctrine, of late medieval Catholicism.
https://www.christianitytoday.com/hi...onnection.html
A book Jan Hus: Religious Reform and Social Revolution in Bohemia
By Thomas A. Fudge
also says:
"While Hus did speak much of grace, faith and the authority of Scripture.. he knew nothing of sola fide or sola scriptura".
"Throughout the works and sermons of Jan Hus we can locate emphases upon the theological principle
fides caritate formata that salvation is apprehended when faith is formed or completed in love or good works."
My point that "Luther recovered justification by faith (alone)" remains a true statement.
Timothy George and Thomas A. Fudge are real scholars by the way. Fudge in particular is an expert on Jan Hus:
Thomas A. Fudgé is Professor of Medieval History at the University of New England, Australia. Author of thirteen books, he is recognized as an international authority on Jan Hus and Hussite history