Luther (vol 4 of 6)

About this eBook

Author

Grisar, Hartmann, 1845-1932

Title

Luther, vol. 4 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.

49135

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49135

Release Date

June 4, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.LUTHER — A FEW PRESS OPINIONS OF VOLUMES I-III.
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.CHAPTER XXI — 1. Luther and Henry VIII of England. Bigamy instead of Divorce — 2. The Bigamy of Philip of Hesse — Philip Seeks the Permission of Wittenberg. — The Bigamy is Consummated and made Public. — Dispensation; Advice in Confession; a Confessor’s Secret? — Luther’s Embarrassment on the Bigamy becoming Public. — Luther’s Private Utterances Regarding the Bigamy. — Luther at the Conference of Eisenach. The Landgrave’s Indignation. — Melanchthon’s Complaints. — Literary Feud with Duke Henry of Brunswick. — Opinions Old and New Regarding the Bigamy.
6. 6.CHAPTER XXII — 1. A Battery of Assertions. [216] — 2. Opinions of Contemporaries in either Camp — 3. The Psychological Problem Self-suggestion and Scriptural Grounds of Excuse — A Curious Mania. — An Attempt at a Psychological Explanation. — The New Theology of Lying. — Luther’s Influence on His Circle. — 4. Some Leading Slanders on the Mediæval Church Historically Considered — 5. Was Luther the Liberator of Womankind from “Mediæval Degradation”? — Conspectus of Luther’s Distortion of the Catholic View of Marriage. — Luther’s Discordant Utterances on the Value of Marriage in his Sermons and Writings. — Birth of the New Views on Marriage during the Controversy on the Vow of Chastity. — The Natural Impulse and the Honour of Marriage. — Practical Consequences of the New View of Woman: Matrimonial Impediments, Divorce. — Respect for the Female Sex in Luther’s Conversations. — The New Matrimonial Conditions and the Slandered Opponents. — Two Concluding Pictures towards the History of Woman.
7. 7.CHAPTER XXIII — 1. Luther and Erasmus Again — 2. Luther on George of Saxony and George on Luther
8. 8.CHAPTER XXIV — 1. Reports from various Lutheran Districts — 2. At the Centre of the New Faith — 3. Luther’s Attempts to Explain the Decline in Morals — 4. A Malady of the Age: Doubts and Melancholy
9. 9.CHAPTER XXV — 1. The University Professor, the Preacher, the Pastor — Relations with the Wittenberg Students. — The Preacher and Catechist. — Excerpts from Luther’s Sermons on Our Lady. — Statements to Luther’s advantage from various Instructions. His Language. — The Spiritual Guide. — The New Form of Confession. — Church Music. — 2. Emotional Character and Intellectual Gifts — 3. Intercourse with Friends. The Interior of the former Augustinian Monastery — The more favourable side of the Table-Talk. — Kindlier Traits Evinced by Luther. — Prayer and Confidence in God. — Other Personal Traits. His Family Life.
10. 10.CHAPTER XXVI — 1. Luther’s Anger. His Attitude towards the Jews, the Lawyers and the Princes — The Jews. — The Lawyers. — The Princes. — 2. Luther’s Excuse: “We MUST Curse the Pope and His Kingdom” [987] — 3. The Psychology of Luther’s Abusive Language — Various Psychological Factors. — Connection of Luther’s Abusiveness with his Mystic Persuasion of his Special Call. — The Unpleasant Seasoning of Luther’s Abuse. — Protestant Opinions Old and New. — 4. Luther on his own Greatness and Superiority to Criticism The art of “Rhetoric”
11. 11.CHAPTER XXVII — 1. Luther’s “demoniacal” storming. A man “possessed” — 2. Voices of Converts — 3. Lamentations over the Wounds of the Church and over Her Persecutions — 4. The Literary Opposition
12. 12.CHAPTER XXVIII — 1. The Bible text and the Spirit as the “True Tests of Doctrine” — Liberty for the Examination of Scripture and Luther’s Autonomy. — Experience given by the Spirit. — Inspiration and the Canon of Scripture. — Inward Assurance and Disagreements Without. — Remedies against Disagreement. The Outward Word. — The Way of Settling Doubts Concerning Faith. Assurance of Salvation and Belief in Dogma. — Protestant Objections to Luther’s so-called “Formal Principle.” — 2. Luther as a Bible-Expositor — Some Characteristics of Luther’s Exegesis. — Luther’s Exegesis in the Light of His Early Development. — 3. The Sola Fides. Justification and Assurance of Salvation — Some Characteristics of the New Doctrine of Justification. — The Striving after Absolute Certainty of Salvation. — The “Article on which the Church Stands or Falls”: According to Modern Protestants. — 4. Good Works in Theory and Practice — Nature and Origin of the New Doctrine of Works. — Augustine as the Authority for the New Doctrine of Works. — The New Doctrine of Works in Practice, as Judged by Lutheran Opinion in the 16th Century. — Luther’s Utterances in Favour of Good Works. — Works of Charity. Luther and the Ages of the Past. — 5. Other Innovations in Religious Doctrine — The Regula Fidei. — Some Peculiarities of the New Doctrine on the Sacraments, Particularly on Baptism. — His Teaching on the Supper. — Invocation of the Saints. — Mary. — Purgatory. — 6. Luther’s Attack on the Sacrifice of the Mass — First Attacks. “On the Abomination of the Silent Mass.” — “On the Corner-Mass.” Continuation of the Conflict.
13. 13.FOOTNOTES:

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