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Martin Luther begins the Protestant Reformation by nailing his 95 Theses to the door of the church in Wittenberg.
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5 Comments:
I wondered why would you commemorate such an occasion, and then I enlarged it. :) I think he would have written out the F-word, personally. After all, just a few years later he was encouraging the German princes to kill the peasants.
After Luther, the Catholic Church went through a period of internal reform and revival, no? Even from the Catholic viewpoint, it would seem that Luther served God's purpose, despite his various human faults and failures.
Hey MJ, Some of my best friends are Lutherans! And my favourite writer is the Lutheran Pastor Richard Wurmbrand. I'm firmly convinced that I was given a mystical gift of grace from God with regard to Wurmbrand. I'd found one of Wurmbrand's books and thought I'd like to talk to him. I reckoned he would be dead already and that I'd have to wait to meet him in heaven. Then the thought came to me out of the blue: "You will know when he has passed." A few years later I picked up a left wing atheistic British newspaper called The Guardian at random in a cafe. It had an obituary for Wurmbrand who had just died. The other newspapers in Ireland and Britain never covered this item. They didn't know who Wurmbrand was. But the Guardian did.
Gen, I agree with you. I feel a personal debt to Lutherans for their witness. I believe the mystical body of Christ, which is the eternal church, is somehow completed by each of us.
James
Our Lord turns all things to good and straightens every crooked path, but I still wouldn't commend arsonists for taking care of my mouse problem when they burned my house down. ;)
My paternal grandmother was Lutheran and my closest friends in my community are Lutherans. However, my friends view with suspicion both the Missouri Synod and the Wisconsin Evangelical Synod (which don't ordain women), and their own denomination is splitting up over gay clergy. Reformers' work is never done. I don't know what my grandmother would have made of this, as she was a "Confessional Lutheran" and the splits in the US happened when she was elderly.
MJ.
I have long suspected that the holy spirit is drawing us together sometimes in spite of ourselves.
James
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