Martin Luthers Tractatus de Libertate Christiana 1520

Luther, Martin; Svennung, Josef

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“…63 And yet, he soon introduces an aporia, a difficult question, that at first sight seems to consist of two irreconcilable propositions: how can a Christian, in the holy Scriptures, be depicted as both free and a slave at the same time? 64 In a sense, the text is both a scholastic tractate (tractatus) on a specific topic and a sermon. 65 As the text proceeds, it does so step by step in an argumentative manner in which temporary conclusions are frequently drawn.…”

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“…The preface speaks about the "unlearned", but who are they? 66 The German adaptation of De libertate christiana, which was dedicated to the bailiff of Zwickau, Hermann Mülpfort, proves that a much wider readership was intended than the pope and educated clerics. The German text is also a little easier to read and not as precise as the Latin.…”

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“…male townsmen of some standing, who in the words of the tractate "live in the midst of wealth, business, honours, pleasures, and feasts." 68 The advice to young boys, whose irascibility and sexuality need to be tamed, speaks the same language. 69 In any case, the book does not concern the "simpleminded."…”

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“…76 Since no one is a fully spiritual human in this life, everyone has to deal with the world and its temptations. 77 Here, what one does to one's own body (corpus suum) is especially important, since the body constitutes the mediating point between the inner person and other people. 78 Not only should the passions be "purified" (purificetur, expurgandas), 79 but "killed" (mortificationem concupiscentiarum), 80 using a term closely associated with asceticism: mortificatio.…”

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“…77 Here, what one does to one's own body (corpus suum) is especially important, since the body constitutes the mediating point between the inner person and other people. 78 Not only should the passions be "purified" (purificetur, expurgandas), 79 but "killed" (mortificationem concupiscentiarum), 80 using a term closely associated with asceticism: mortificatio. There are several examples of how the body should be "exercised", "subjected", and "chastised" (exerceatur, subdatur, castigare).…”

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The ascetic twist

Westergren

2020

Studia Theologica - Nordic Journal of Theology

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Within the field of church history, this article is a study of a specific topic with regards to the Reformation period, namely, asceticism, from an uncommon perspective. One of the most well-known Reformation treatises, Martin Luther's On the Freedom of a Christian, is read in conversation with an earlier ascetic writing, Maximus Confessor's The Ascetic Life, and then compared to an understudied debate from the late sixteenth century between the Lutheran Tübingen theologians and the patriarch of Constantinople, Jeremiah II. This textually-based study is concerned both with the methodological problems that characterize the politics of comparison and with the present debates surrounding asceticism. In the end, it is argued that asceticism is not only a historically valid topic of study in a Lutheran setting, but also theologically relevant. Based on a distinction between spiritual and physical exercise, I argue that there is a social dimension to be rediscovered if inner dimensions of "piety" are reconnected with embodied, visible and communal practices in the context of the counterculture that is the Christian church.

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German political and economic ideology in the twentieth century and its theological problems: The Lutheran genealogy of ordoliberalism

Krarup

2019

European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology

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Ordoliberalism is widely considered to be the dominant ideology of the German political elite today and consequently responsible at least in part for its hard 'austerity' line during the recent Eurozone crisis. This article presents a genealogy of the main concerns, concepts and problems around which early German ordoliberalism was formed and structured as a political and economic ideology. Early ordoliberalism is shown to be rooted in an interwar Germanophone Lutheran Evangelical tradition of anti-humanist 'political ethics'. Its specific conceptions of the market, the state, the individual, freedom and duty were developed on a Lutheran Evangelical basis. Analytically, the article considers ideological influences of theology on political and economic theory not so much in terms of consensus and ideational overlap, but rather in terms of shared concerns, concepts and problems across different positions.

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The Reading Asabthani in Luther’s Translation of Matthew 27.46

Jonge

2022

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This essay argues that Martin Luther’s choice of asabthani in Matt 27.46 instead of sabachthani in his source text, Erasmus’s 1519 edition of the New Testament, was based on the reading azabt(h)ani occurring in many editions of the Latin Vulgate printed in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Although Luther based his translation primarily on the Greek and Latin texts included in Erasmus’s Novum Testamentum of 1519, he repeatedly preferred readings of the Vulgate to those of Erasmus. This also applies to this reading asabthani in Matt 27.46.

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Martin Luthers Tractatus de Libertate Christiana 1520

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The ascetic twist

The ascetic twist

German political and economic ideology in the twentieth century and its theological problems: The Lutheran genealogy of ordoliberalism

The Reading Asabthani in Luther’s Translation of Matthew 27.46

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