The only Reformation was the German Reformation of Luther, Melanchthon, and Chemnitz, with the aid of many fine clergy and brave laity. Later responses in other countries were not reformations, but borrowers of the name Luther so they could promote their own agendas.
The Swiss failed with Zwingli and later with Calvin. England coveted Melanchthon's great intellect but he remained with Luther. Chemnitz - an act of God - studied under Luther and Melanchthon. William Tyndale worked closely with the Germans, secretly developing an English Bible that became the anonymous King James Version.
Walking home from school in junior and senior high, I had the advantage of a paperback store on the way. The student bibliophiles exchanged best titles to read, and I was pointed toward Here I Stand, A Life of Martin Luther, by Roland Bainton. Much later, Christina said, after we met him at Yale Divinity, "He's the only professor who makes you dizzy." I kept and used the paperback for decades.
I remain stymied by today's utter lack of knowledge about Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Bible. The so-called Lutheran leaders are not Lutheran and they never lead, except when plunging off the cliff like their forebears, the Garasene swine.
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| Discounts at Fuller Seminary, Trinity Divinity, and other bordellos. Whee! |
I listened to the LCA's facts at their so-called evangelism conferences, then the same thing from WELS-LCMS. Soon the conference fever led to massive gatherings of blowhards. The potential was unlimited for disciples making disciples making disciples, as one WELS professor published, confusing evangelism with animal husbandry. Farmers grasp what the city folk cannot.
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| "It's all your fault!" |
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| Celebrating the 500th Anniversary as staff ministers, no one seemed to notice the Four Waltherian Cults - LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic) going full-ELCA: women, gays, and Fuller Seminary. |
