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Martin Luther
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- 1What did Martin Luther have in common with MLK Sr?Both had changed their names; Martin Luther’s original name was Martin Luder or Ludher -it’s unknown why he changed it but after he became famous his parents also changed theirs. MLK sr and his son were both originally Mike King and after Sr visited the holy lands and then attended a conference in Germany he became inspired by ML and simultaneously changed his and his son’s.
- 2Patron Saint of Miners?St Anne (Anne was Mary’s mother). Luther’s dad owning mining and smelting operations
- 3When was church of England’s founding 39 articles?1571. One of the articles was opposition to indulgences
- 4Why is it likely that the posting of the Theses is more a product of embellishment or even outright invention?Time Magazine insists that if it happened at all it certainly didn’t involve hammer and nail. ML who clearly did write them and risked his life for his positions, certainly didn’t deliberately try to pick fights and it’s only 100 years later, on eve of 30 Years War that this glamorously defiant tale is told by a Rhineland leader to drum up support. ML never mentioned it.
- 5Psychoanalyst Erik Erickson’s 1958 canardThat Luther’s father was so impossibly Strict it resulted in ML’s rebellion against both earthly and heavenly fathers. Because of unfair cherry picking of facts and omissions of others, Metaxas characterizes Erickson’s scholarship as serving a modish and unfair investigation to deliberately serve Freudian narratives.
- 6John WycliffeBorn in England around 1328 and printing press came along in 1450 (when he was 22) and the Gutenburg Bible in 1455 (27 years old).
- 7Although Wycliffe was 150 years before Luther they both stood against what?The Papacy, transubstantiation, indulgences, monasticism, special priestly castes, and church wealth.
- 8Fall of Constantinople1453 (39 years before Columbus)
- 9What does renaissance mean, what was its catalyst and what became the great cry across Europe?It means rebirth, the catalyst was the fall of Constantinople because innumerable Greek Byzantine scholars fled and resettled across Europe sparking a revival leading to Renaissance Humanism, who’s great cry was “Ad Fontes” (back to the sources).
- 10“Ich will ein Monch werden “July 2, 1505 21-year old ML’s road to Damascus lightening storm IVO 114 NM NE of Frankfort, 6 miles from village of Stotternhiem. “I will become a monk”
- 11It took a lot of courage and conviction for Luther to change life direction and goals in response to the storm encounter. Where’s the one place he demonstrated cowardice?He failed to tell his parents who sacrificially paid for his education. He just sold his books and took off for the monastery on July 16th, two weeks after the storm after a grand farewell dinner with friends.
- 12Where did Luther present himself?The Augustinian Cloister of Erfurt (unknown why this over Dominicans, Benedictines or Franciscans). Possibly because Augustinians were the strictest sects, which likely appealed to him.
- 13In a lot of ways Luther was admirable, what were some ways in which he was the outlier or even a weirdo?One of his own confessions lasted over six hours. He became an unprecedented moral madman on a never ending treadmill of confession for piddling things which probably aren’t even sins. Luther was chasing his own tail.
- 14Who was the Vicar-General of the Sugustinian Order?Johannes Von Staupitz who heard ML’s confessions
- 15St Thomas Aquinas1225-1274 an Italian Dominican Fiar Who was dubbed the most influential thinker of the mid evil period. He brought Aristotle’s reasoning to theology.
- 16Problems with AristotleFound Conventional scholarly claim of his time false that Aristotle does not contradict the “Catholic Truth”. Discovered that it does by studying Augustine’s City of God & Trinity. All of this led to the idea that human truth has limits and could never reach heaven. Describes as hubristic folly.
- 17“One must first kill a joke to look inside it” -Mark Twain How was this mis-applied to the entrenched academic scholarly approach in ML’s day?1. Literal sense
2. Topological sense
3. Allegorical sense
4. Anagogic sense -moral or idealistic striving of the unconscious9 - 18Psalms as an example of scholarly research which forced students to invent interpretations which were downright wrong.1. Literal sense -Christologolical
2. Topological sense -significance for humanity (morals)
3. Allegorical sense -having to do with the church
4. Anagogic sense -end times - 19How long, how far and what hazards from the Augustinian Cloister of Erfurt to the Vatican?11 days, 780 miles and he had to cross the Swiss or Austrian Alps most likely through Innsbruck
- 20Tallest church building on earthUlm Minster. Construction began in 1377 but the 530-foot steeple (75 feet shorter than Space Needle & 15 feet taller than Cologne Cathedral) was finished when ML came upon it en route to the Vatican. Construction wasn’t finished entirely until 5-31-1890.
- 21Prince of the HumanistsErasmus (of Rotterdam) or esiderius Erasmus Roterodamus 1466-1536 a Dutch Philosopher & Catholic theologian, considered the greatest scholar in Northern Renaissance
- 22Likely inspiration for Luther’s authorship and composition of A Mighty Fortress is Our GodMartyrdom of Kaiser and Sister Hanna (Black Cloister)
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