Comments on: The Monk Who Defied A Pope

By: Candlemass

Candlemass — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 13:37:07 +0000

http://socrates58.blogspot.com/2004/09/my-use-of-luther-biographer-roland_19.html

By: Candlemass

Candlemass — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 13:34:24 +0000

Two sides to every story!

http://www.ewtn.com/library/CHISTORY/RTREF.TXT

By: Danny

Danny — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:32:00 +0000

I’ve never actually read through all the theses. Thank you Steve for posting them to your “blog door”. Ironically, the chapel door in Whittenburg is probably analogous to todays blog.
#88 is my favorite: “Again: Surely a greater good could be done to the church if the pope were to bestow these remissions and dispensations, not once, as now, but a hundred times a day, for the benefit of any believer whatever.”

I think he wrote this in the context of the selling of indulgences. If so, he is saying that if the pope has the power to release souls from purgatory(by your buying indulgences), then why doesn’t he do it out of his own goodness?
#89 reinforces the point. It assumes that Luther has been told or has read in a Papal Bull that indulgences are not being sold for money for money’s sake.(to build St. Peter’s Basilica at the time).

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:41:34 +0000

JE – Impossible to say what Luther would have done. Undoubtedly, there were faithful, godly bishops and cardinals with the RCC at that time. What is clear is that his argument was that the church was corrupt – in theology and in practice – and that the church needed reforming.

By: Kim

Kim — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:08:20 +0000

My little sister once went trick-or-treating as Martin Luther. Happy Reformation Day.

By: JE

JE — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:07:40 +0000

Would Luther have left the Roman Catholic Church (a) if they had not attempted to kill him or (b) he had been under the authority of a bishop who agreed with him on the theological matters in question?

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:52:55 +0000

Luther was an Ockham wannabe.

By: Kelly Irish

Kelly Irish — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:43:07 +0000

While selling indulgences is not on the list of offenses attributed to ECUSA, I can only guess that if Martin Luther were alive today and and an Episcopal cleric, he would have a lot more to nail to the doors of 815 regarding, the uniqueness of Jesus Christ as the Son of God and sole means of salvation, the need for personal conversion, the authority of Scripture, bishops who don’t defend the faith, taking Believers to court over property, etc. These make the corruptions of the Church in Luther’s day look tame!

By: Tom Humes

Tom Humes — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:25:36 +0000

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Tom Humes