03-04-2004, 10:08 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-05-2004, 04:13 PM by Occhidiangela.)
Sacremental =| spiritual, particularly in the sense that I was using the term spiritual.
I'd hazard a guess that his knowledge of the details matrimony, or being married, is suspect. I'll have to check and see if he ever got married himself.
His diatribe against scarements is an argument against ritual over scripture, no surprise, which defies the attributions to Jesus in the gospels in re marriage, and the later discussions of the letters that became canon. That hardly equates to dismissing marriage as a worthy institution. Or was he a lecher? Plenty of clergy in his day were, if you believe even a part of what you read.
All his harangue aside, Martin Luther still printed the Bible "as written." His target was Popes, and Papal Bulls (I share his lack of enthusiasm for the idea of Papal Bulls being equivalent to Scripture) and the inconsistency of the actions of the clergy, in his time, among other things.
Having not read the 99 theses in the original German, I cannot infer any sly or subtle messages he may have been making.
EDIT: I suspect the originals may have been written in Latin, the language of the clergy in medeival Europe. :P
I'd hazard a guess that his knowledge of the details matrimony, or being married, is suspect. I'll have to check and see if he ever got married himself.
His diatribe against scarements is an argument against ritual over scripture, no surprise, which defies the attributions to Jesus in the gospels in re marriage, and the later discussions of the letters that became canon. That hardly equates to dismissing marriage as a worthy institution. Or was he a lecher? Plenty of clergy in his day were, if you believe even a part of what you read.
All his harangue aside, Martin Luther still printed the Bible "as written." His target was Popes, and Papal Bulls (I share his lack of enthusiasm for the idea of Papal Bulls being equivalent to Scripture) and the inconsistency of the actions of the clergy, in his time, among other things.
Having not read the 99 theses in the original German, I cannot infer any sly or subtle messages he may have been making.
EDIT: I suspect the originals may have been written in Latin, the language of the clergy in medeival Europe. :P
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete