Luther, vol. 6 of 6

“His most elaborate and systematic biography … is not merely a book to be reckoned with; it is one with which we cannot dispense, if only for its minute examination of Luther’s...

Luther’s appeals on behalf of the schools; polemical trend of his appeals; his ideal of elementary education; study of the Bible and the classics. The decline in matters educati...

The statements regarding Luther’s intercourse with the beyond and his visions of the devil. The misunderstood reference to his disputation with the devil on the Mass. His belief...

Inward peace and happiness in his monastic days; his vows and their breach; some peculiarities of his humility; his feverish addiction to his work; the facts around which his la...

Freedom as Luther’s early watchword. Intolerance towards Catholics, in theory, and in practice. Sanguinary threats against all papists; the death-penalty pronounced against “sec...

His depression gets the better of him and he leaves the town “for ever.” Change of air sweetens his temper and he returns and resumes his work with new ardour _pages_ 341-351

Luther’s defiance of the whole world, whilst evoking their wonder, failed to secure the admiration of Catholics. Whether Luther’s undoubted strength of will makes of him a “grea...

There could be nothing worse, he declared, than to abuse and neglect the precious souls of the little ones; even a hundred florins was not too much to pay to make a good Christi...

The struggles of conscience which we already had occasion to consider (vol. v., p. 319 ff.) were not the only gloomy elements in Luther’s interior life. Other things, too, must...

his new doctrines, and his overturning of the Church which accounted for his “agonies of soul,” his “pangs of hell” and “nightly combats” with the devil, or rather with his own...

In later life, looking back on his past, Luther was in the habit of depicting certain of its principal phases in a way which is at variance with the facts, and which even Protes...

In the early days of his public protest against the olden Church, when Luther proclaimed the “universal priesthood of all Christians,” there could as yet be no question of any c...

“Old age is here,” so wrote Luther in a fit of depression to his Elector on March 30, 1544, in his sixty-first year; “old age which in itself is cold and ungainly, weak and sick...

The first panegyrics on Luther, the funeral orations and encomiums which were immediately printed and scattered broadcast through Germany constitute an historical phenomenon in...

[1497] Dec. 22, 1525, to Duke George of Saxony (?), Erl. ed., 53, p. 340 (“Briefwechsel,” 5, p. 281). Cp. Weim. ed., 7, p. 274; Erl. ed., 27, p. 210, where the assertion also oc...

his “relics,” iv. 292, v. 307 f.; A. and Erasmus, ii. 248; and Lemnius, vi. 287; and Melanchthon, iii. 370; and Schönitz, iv. 319 f., v. 106; and Erfurt, ii. 354 f., 359 f.; res...

against good works, iv. 475, vi. 392; matrimonial agent, ii. 137, 139; dealings with spirits, v. 282, 315 f.; “consecration,” v. 191 ff.; edits L.’s works, ii. 55; coarseness, i...

Augustine, St., i. 12, 23 f., 76 f., 90 f., 92, 204, 210 f., 250, 305 f., 400 f., ii. 225 f., 233 f., iv. 108 ff., 331, 335, 439 f.; pseudo-A., i. 311 f., vi. 501, 515; L. and M...

Capito, W., relations with L., ii. 6 f.; against L., ii. 242, iv. 99, vi. 280; on bigamy, iv. 6, 10, n.; intolerance, vi. 277 f.; despair, iv. 220; dishonesty, iv. 115; relief o...

Cochlæus, with Luther at Worms, ii. 65, vi. 135, 143 f.; on L., i. 17, 24, 30, iii. 303, iv. 92, 354, 358, vi. 431; L. on C., v. 182, 303; C. on Melanchthon, v. 267; literary wo...

Contradictions: the Schoolmen admitted grace, and didn’t, i. 150; the monks were, and were not, zealous, i. 271; death was a reason why L. should, and should not, marry, ii. 181...

Excommunication, Church’s use of, against L., ii. 19 f., 45-52, 90; L. against E., i. 24 f., 51 f., 54, 66, 337, 371, ii. 231 f., iii. 120, 146, iv. 85 f., 320, v. 122; L.’s own...

and to insist on the rights of the authorities, v. 569 f.; why don’t they perform miracles? vi. 151 f.; L.’s attack on them, ii. 167, 363-379. _See_ Anabaptists, Carlstadt, etc.

Idolatry, to stand by one’s statutes, i. 72; to look on God as the Judge, i. 390 f.; to honour Mary, iv. 502 f.; to say Mass, iv. 507, n.; to pray, i. 309; L.’s gainsayers are a...

Johann the Constant, of Saxony, relations with L., ii. 240, 345, iii. 35, iv. 206 f., 316, v. 496; furthers L.’s cause, ii. 214, 331, v. 144, 576, 579, 587; on resistance to the...

Love of God, perfect, i. 158, 172, 191, 194, 236, 238 f., 308, v. 33 f.; imperfect is mere egotism, i. 251; required together with faith for justification, i. 207, ii. 240. _See...

Mary, Virgin, L. on honour paid to the, iv. 235-238, 500-503, v. 146, 476; conceived without sin, iv. 238, n.; her virginity, v. 446; on the Hail M., iv. 502, v. 478, 480, 517....

Papists are murderers, iii. 130 ff., 414; Cains and devils, iii. 43; fattening pigs, iv. 288; as bad as Turks, iii. 91 f., vi. 155; abnormal nature of L.’s views of the P., vi....

Penance, i. 65 f., 90 f., 119, 290, 292-296, 311 f., iii. 176, 184 ff., 212, 323, iv. 460, 491, v. 23 f., 452 f; the sacrament, ii. 27, iii. 338, iv. 249, 491 f., v. 462. _See_...

“pseudo-papa,” ii. 163, n.,; “I am your P.,” v. 231; P. of Germany, vi. 77; “called by God to be an anti-pope,” ii. 54, iii. 110; “ego sum papa,” v. 191, n., vi. 315; “the Germa...

Schools, vi. 3-41; school-punishments, i. 5; L’s concern for the S., iv. 247, 264 f., v. 386, 562; decline of the S., iv. 208, vi. 367, 435 f. _See_ Æsop, Greek, etc.

helps in the German Bible, v. 495; marriage matters, ii. 137, 140, 173; intolerance, ii. 331, v. 145, 593, vi. 240, 274; missionary work, ii. 316, v. 124 f.; becomes a victim to...

Suicide, a work of the devil, v. 281 f.; increase in Lutheranism, iv. 222 f., v. 240; L.’s temptations to commit S., v. 352 f.; and the baseless tale that he did, vi. 379, 381 f.

Temptations, of the flesh, i. 18 f., 275, 287 f., ii. 82 f., 94 f., vi. 118, 120 f., 511; to blasphemy, i. 194, ii. 122; T. against faith, i. 25 f., 124, v. 362 f.; to despair,...

Virtue, no infused V., v. 35; no efforts to be made after V., i. 83, iii. 187 ff.; the conception of V. altered, iv. 459; natural V. is no V. but rather vice, i. 101, 160; V. is...

Will of God, reason why things are good and evil, i. 157, 212, _see_ God (the hidden); Will (human), _see_ Freedom; L.’s strong Will, iii. 112, iv. 259, vi. 396. _See_ Defiance