Luther (vol. 3 of 6)

About this eBook

Author

Grisar, Hartmann, 1845-1932

Title

Luther, vol. 3 of 6

Credits

Produced by Giovanni Fini, David Garcia, Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)

Language

English

LoC Class

BR: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity

Subject

Luther, Martin, 1483-1546

Category

Text

eBook-No.

49106

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49106

Release Date

June 2, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.LUTHER — A FEW PRESS OPINIONS OF VOLUME I
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.CHAPTER XV — 1. Luther’s Religious Situation. Was his Reaction a Break with Radicalism? — 2. From the Congregational to the State Church Secularisations — Confiscation of Church Property. — Secularisation of the Matrimonial Courts. Against the Lawyers. — 3. The Question of the Religious War; Luther’s Vacillating Attitude. The League of Schmalkalden, 1531 — Luther on Armed Resistance, until 1530. — The Change of 1530; Influence of the Courts. — The League of Schmalkalden and the Religious Peace of Nuremberg. — Luther and the Religious War in Later Years. — 4. The Turks Without and the Turks [Papists] Within the Empire — Against Assistance for the Turkish War. — In Favour of Assistance for the Turkish War. — Luther on Turks and Papists. — 5. Luther’s Nationalism and Patriotism
6. 6.CHAPTER XVI — 1. Growth of Luther’s Idea of his Divine Mission — Periodic Upheaval of Luther’s Idea of his Divine Mission. — 2. His Mission Alleged against the Papists — The Pope and the Papacy. — The Catholics. — Apocalyptico-Mystic Vesture. — 3. Proofs of the Divine Mission. Miracles and Prophecies
7. 7.CHAPTER XVII — 1. Luther’s Vocation. His Standard of Life — 2. Some of Luther’s Practical Principles of Life — Luther on Sin — Luther’s Views on Penance — Luther on Efforts after Higher Virtue. — Luther’s “Pecca fortiter.” — 3. Luther’s Admissions Concerning His own Practice of Virtue — 4. The Table-Talk and the First Notes of the same — The Pith of the New Religion. Doubts on Faith. — 5. On Marriage and Sexuality — The Necessity of Marriage. — The “Miracle” of Voluntary and Chaste Celibacy. — Luther’s Loosening of the Marriage Tie. — Polygamy. — Toleration for Concubinage? Matrimony no Sacrament. — Luther on Matters Sexual. — 6. Contemporary Complaints. Later False Reports — Had Luther three children of his own apart from those born of his union with Bora? — Luther and Catherine Bora. — Did Luther indulge in “the Worst Orgies” with the Escaped Nuns in the Black Monastery of Wittenberg? — The Passages “which will not bear repetition.” — Did Luther, as a Young Monk, say that he would push on until he could wed a Girl? — Luther’s stay as a boy in Cotta’s house at Eisenach no ground for a charge of immorality. — Did Luther describe the lot of the Hog as the most enviable Goal of Happiness? — Did Luther allow as valid Marriage between Brother and Sister? — Did Luther Recommend People to Pray for Many Wives and Few Children? — Did Luther include Wives in the “Daily Bread” of the Our Father? — Was Luther the originator of the proverb: “Who loves not woman, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long”? — 7. The “Good Drink” — Unsatisfactory Witnesses. — Other Witnesses, Friendly and Hostile. — Luther’s Own Comments on the “Good Drink.” — Witnesses to Luther’s Temperate Habits. — From the Cellar and the Tap-Room.
8. 8.CHAPTER XVIII — 1. Melanchthon in the Service of Lutheranism, 1518-30 — Earlier Relations of Luther with Melanchthon. — Melanchthon at the Diet of Augsburg, 1530. — Melanchthon, the “Erasmian” Intermediary. — 2. Disagreements and Accord between Luther and Melanchthon — Disagreements. — Points of Accord between Melanchthon and Luther. — 3. Melanchthon at the Zenith of His Career. His Mental Sufferings — Favourable Traits. — Melanchthon’s Relations with Luther.
9. 9.CHAPTER XIX — 1. Zwingli and the Controversy on the Supper — 2. Carlstadt — 3. Johann Agricola, Jacob Schenk, and Johann Egranus — 4. Bugenhagen, Jonas and others
10. 10.CHAPTER XX — 1. Zürich, Münster, the Wittenberg Concord, 1536 — 2. Efforts in view of a Council. Vergerio visits Luther — 3. The Schmalkalden Assembly of 1537. Luther’s Illness — 4. Luther’s Spirit in Melanchthon
11. 11.FOOTNOTES:

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