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Category: Luther

  • Cochlaeus Work On-Line

    Further to my last post about the BSB digitization project, one may recall an informal debate that I conducted with Dave Armstrong last January on the issue of a spurious quotation attributed to Luther. The full work of that slanderer Cochlaeus, from which the quotation originated, has been digitized and is available freely on-line, though…

  • Good News for Lutherophiles

    At least, I think it is good news. Todd at Historical Theoblogy has a report on a digitization project that aims to digitize 100,000 volumes: all the extant volumes that were published in Germany (well, in the German-speaking lands) in the 16th century (link to report). Obviously, a significant percentage of these works will be…

  • Two Kingdoms, Yes – But Don’t Go Beyond the Bible

    Mr. James Swan, for a very different purpose, brought the following two quotations to my attention (link to source). Both are from Martin Luther and help to demonstrate the danger of taking the two kingdoms distinction beyond the Bible: It is pure invention that pope, bishops, priests and monks are called the spiritual estate, while…

  • Leo X on Luther

    Do people still believe what Leo X said about Luther. Mr. Bellisario (editor of the “Catholic Champion” blog) has republished part of an English translation of one of Leo X’s writings against Luther. (link). What’s interesting is that the the decree Mr. Bellisario cuts and pastes from here (link) makes reference to an earlier bull,…

  • An Inconvenient Conciliar Truth – Part 02

    An Inconvenient Conciliar Truth – Part 02 Some folks seem to find relying on councils a comfort. For these folks, there are some inconvenient facts that they must face. This post is the second in what, Lord willing, will be a multi-part series. Council of Trent (1545 to 1563) – Not Prior to the Reformation…

  • Waltz on Luther – "articulus stantis vel cadentis ecclesiae"

    David Waltz, a Catholic (I think), poster with whom I’ve crossed swords a few times, has posted a recent blog article in which he identifies a quotation that he believes has been misattributed to Martin Luther. (link to post) First of all, thanks to David for his post. It is always good to clear the…

  • Snow-Covered Dung-Heap – Luther / Langland / Chrysostom?

    It’s often claimed (mostly by Roman Catholics) that Luther compared justification to a snow-covered dung-heap. None have to date (and this author’s knowledge) been able to document precisely who originated the phrase, or where it occurs in Luther’s voluminous writings, although at least one guy has given it a shot. Considering that we recently demonstrated…

  • Various Readings of the Great Luther Citation

    The following are the fourteen readily obtainable uses by authors of the spurious Latin gloss on Luther’s statement, as instigated by Cochlaeus and perpetuated by Bellarmine, and as brought to the public’s attention as spurious by both Whitaker and Swan. The words: “Si diutius steterit mud, iteru erit necessariu, ut, ppter diversas Scripture interptationes, q…

  • Luther Citation Discussion – Status Report

    Data: 1. Partial “original” from Cochlaeus.2. English translation of Luther, apparently from the German original.3. Armstrong has the German original of Luther as produced in his “works,” which we expect will simply reveal that the English translation is accurate.4. We also have a practically illegible (to me) photograph of a single page from a manuscript…

  • Selection from “That These Words of Christ, ‘This is My Body,’ etc., Still Stand Firm Against the Fanatics,”

    Once Scripture had become like a broken net and no one would be restrained by it, but everyone made a hole in it wherever it pleased him to poke his snout, and followed his own opinions, interpreting and twisting Scripture any way he pleased, the Christians knew no other way to cope with these problems…