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Indlæser... Martin Luther : The Christian between God and Death (udgave 2000)af Richard Marius
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. For an avowed disbeliever, Marius can write surprisingly unannoying books about men of faith like Luther and Thomas More, but I found his argument that Luther was largely motivated by terror in the face of death unpersuasive (and possibly a case of projection on the part of Marius). *Lots* of theological discussion. ( ) Marius's biography-true to the long tradition of writing inspired by Luther-is as polemical as it is riveting. In the preface, he pronounces Luther "a catastrophe in the history of Western civilization." That judgment is not tempered by the text, which not only locates Luther between God and death but also places Marius with Erasmus and Thomas More on the side of reason against the skepticism behind Luther's paradoxical embrace of faith. As a map of Luther and his time, this is fascinating. Because Luther sees the devil as "God's devil," the cosmic struggle of his world cannot be (in Heiko Oberman's phrase) between God and the devil. For Luther, the cosmic enemy is death, figured as annihilation, countered not by reason but by faith. While noting the influence of mysticism on Luther's thought, Marius characterizes this view as closer to tragedy. His Luther is neither a mystic nor a theologian of tragedy but the tragic emblem of a Western civilization marked since the sixteenth century by religious intolerance and violence. Marius ends imagining a world in which Luther was not born, in which Erasmian reason peacefully reformed the Catholic church toward tolerance without schism. That is an interesting vision in a world full of evidence that struggle toward tolerance still demands passion as much as reason. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
Marius follows Luther from his birth in Saxony in 1483, during the reign of Frederick III, through his schooling in Erfurt, his flight to an Augustinian monastery and ordination to the outbreak of his revolt against Rome in 1517, the Wittenberg years, his progress to Worms, his exile in the Wartburg, and his triumphant return to Wittenberg. Throughout, Marius pauses to acquaint us with pertinent issues: the question of authority in the church, the theology of penance, the timing of Luther's "Reformation break-through," the German peasantry in 1525, Muntzer's revolutionaries, the whys and hows of Luther's attack on Erasmus. In this personal, occasionally irreverent, always humane reconstruction, Luther emerges as a skeptic who hated skepticism and whose titanic wrestling with the dilemma of the desire for faith and the omnipresence of doubt and fear became an augury for the development of the modern religious consciousness of the West. In all of this, he also represents tragedy, with the goodness of his works overmatched by their calamitous effects on religion and society. No library descriptions found. |
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