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Bezig met laden... The Ninety-Five Theses and Other Writingsdoor Martin Luther
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"For the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, a new translation of Martin Luther's most famous works by leading Luther scholar and pastor William Russell This volume contains selections from Martin Luther's most evocative and provocative writings, freshly translated, for the 21st century. These documents, which span the Reformer's literary career, point to the enduring and flexible character of his central ideas. As Luther's reform proposals emerged, they coalesced around some basic priorities, which he delivered to wide-ranging audiences--writing for children, preaching in congregations, formulating academic treatises, penning letters to family and friends, counter-punching critics, summarizing Biblical books, crafting confessions of faith, and more. This book demonstrates that range and provides entry points, for non-specialists and specialists alike, into the thought and life of the epoch-defining, fascinating, and controversial Martin Luther. With attention to the breadth of his literary output, it draws from his letters, sermons, popular writings, and formal theological works. This breadth allows readers to encounter Luther the man: the sinner and the saint, the public activist and the private counselor, the theologian and the pastor. These writings possess a practical, accessible arc, as Luther does not write only for specialists and church officials, but he applies his chief insights to the "real-life" issues that faced his rather wide variety of audiences"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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It’s surprising to read.
For one thing the William R. Russell translation I’m reading is very contemporary. “If you don’t quit it....” “No way.” Etc. Not like a Victorian edition.
And Luther doesn’t really come across to me as being as mindlessly sectarian as many people are. “And I tell you, although my enemies have caused me so great sorrow, none of them has hurt me as deeply as (my friends).”
I mean, he did go careening off the Catholic highway into the libertarian undergrowth, and he did think that the devil liked hitching people to rules, but I honestly don’t think it was a one-to-one correspondence in his mind to being a Catholic and being the devil.
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He did have hard words for the Catholics; I can’t deny that, although it wasn’t the racial hatred that developed later. It was much more like this thing for him that meant something like “the whole world”. “Oh, people would say that, wouldn’t they. Well, I guess that’s just what people are like.”
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If he was hungry, it would be “hanger”. (hangry).
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I never realized how trans-literal Luther’s translating is. “I must sometimes let the literal words go and try to learn how Germans communicate what the Hebrew expresses.”
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He was from a small principality; he was a man under siege.
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Whenever you dislike someone instead of liking them, it’s easy to want to despise them, easy to want to imagine them to be the worst sinner without exception. It would be extremely easy for me to mock Luther, you know.
And if I did, maybe he would change, right.
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You should always be careful when somebody else’s shadow is highly visible to you, because your own shadow probably isn’t nearly as visible to you.
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The editor does a nice job of bringing together a variety of topics in a short book, and I can see what a mistake it would be to simply write Luther off as a humbug. (He wrote a great thing about prayer.)
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One time I was friends with the girlie, but then the girlie decided that she was going to be a meanie so I decided to make the girlie feel sad. Girlie flipped and became the devil so after many years of decision I decided to make the girlie feel sad and to nom on her brains.
It was the only thing I could do, you guys.
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But in all seriousness, what good ever comes from proving people wrong? It’s not charity.
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Luther’s problem isn’t so much sect as theology itself’s shadow; “you are not forgiven! You are condemned! The answer to question 27 was C, dammit!”....
But it’s still a useful perspective to have, especially for religious people like me who make lots of rules for themselves. It’s just ironic that, like resting on the sabbath, grace became, too often, at least, something to browbeat people about.