Did Luther's wrath contribute to the traditional German slavish obedience to authority?
2006-09-09 01:18:28 · 5 answers · asked by mouthbreather77 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Martin was concerned for the spiritual welfare of his parishioners. When they tore down all the statues of saints in the churches, for instance, he saw that they did not understand the goals of the reformation, and were in danger of using their new found freedom for ends which would destroy their love for and obedience toward God. One of those obediences was to obey your governmental leaders. (Even Christ did not recommend his followers to rise up Rome and just consider the list of corrupt rulers and stronghanded law placed upon the subjugated territories there). The aristocracy had helped Luther, partly for political ends, but it is impossible to utterly separate political and religious ends and only America has tried that, with abysmal results, again from misunderstanding of the concerns of the constitution). But without proper rulership the people would be in a worse state than they were beore their uprising. He probably called them dogs because to his mind they were acting against their own interests, and just following each other--like a pack of dogs, wreaking havoc without rational thought or concern for the consequences.
2006-09-09 01:37:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the New Testament there are several lines that order people not to be rebel against the government. Luther did not care for money and things like that. And as far as your "traditional slavish obedience" is concerned: You don´t know the Germans. Don´t be a stupid racist!
2006-09-09 14:52:17 · answer #2 · answered by mai-ling 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why - because it was the after all the aristocrats in German that came to his aid and protected him his attempts to reform the Roman Catholic Church. Luther was not anti-elite and in fact anything that did not conform to his on brand of Christianity he did not support - remember the only real differences between the early Lutherian Church and the Roman Catholic Church were the faces who ran it - not that is wasn't a heirarichal paternalistic institution.
2006-09-09 08:27:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Martin Luther was a hypocrite too. He removed 4 books(Hebrews, Jude, Revelation, and James) from the bibles he made. They were too catholic for him.
Luckily, his followers decided he was wrong. Imagine a Bible with 4 less books!
2006-09-09 10:24:39 · answer #4 · answered by Villain 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because that's where the MONEY was!
2006-09-09 08:41:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋