In Defense of Martin Luther (part 10)
| January 22, 2012 | Posted by Joseph Keysor under Blog |
1. Violence 2. Unclean language 3. Hostility to science and reason 4. Luther’s responsibility for later events in German history 5. Luther and German nationalism a. Some misconceptions b. Luther’s worldview c. Modern nationalism 6. Luther’s anti-Semitism a. David and Bathsheba b. Luther’s biblical understanding of the Jews c.…
In Defense of Martin Luther (part 9)
| January 8, 2012 | Posted by Joseph Keysor under Blog |
1. Violence 2. Unclean language 3. Hostility to science and reason 4. Luther’s responsibility for later events in German history 5. Luther and German nationalism a. Some misconceptions b. Luther’s worldview c. Modern nationalism 6. Luther’s anti-Semitism a. David and Bathsheba b. Luther’s biblical understanding of the Jews c.…
In Defense of Martin Luther (part 8)
| December 15, 2011 | Posted by Joseph Keysor under Blog |
1. Violence 2. Unclean language 3. Hostility to science and reason 4. Luther’s responsibility for later events in German history 5. Luther and German nationalism a. Some misconceptions b. Luther’s worldview c. Modern nationalism 6. Luther’s anti-Semitism a. David and Bathsheba b. Luther’s biblical understanding of the Jews c.…
Response to Coel Hellier’s blog “Nazi racial ideology was religious, creationist and opposed to Darwinism”
| November 30, 2011 | Posted by Joseph Keysor under Blog |
Interrupting my series of blogs defending Martin Luther, I thought I would post my response to a long article on the subject of Hitler’s beliefs. The author claims he only wants to detach Hitler from atheism and from Darwinism, but numerous comments linking Hilter to Christianity and to Christians were made. The article can be…
In Defense of Martin Luther (part 7)
| November 21, 2011 | Posted by Joseph Keysor under Blog |
1. Violence 2. Unclean language 3. Hostility to science and reason 4. Luther’s responsibility for later events in German history 5. Luther and German nationalism a. Some misconceptions b. Luther’s worldview c. Modern nationalism 6. Luther’s anti-Semitism a. David and Bathsheba b. Luther’s biblical understanding of the Jews I think…
In Defense of Martin Luther (part 6)
| November 4, 2011 | Posted by Joseph Keysor under Blog |
1. Violence 2. Unclean language 3. Hostility to science and reason 4. Luther’s responsibility for later events in German history 5. Luther and German nationalism a. Some misconceptions b. Luther’s worldview c. Modern nationalism 6. Luther’s anti-Semitism 6. a. David and Bathsheba Turning now to the serious problem of Luther’s attacks on…
In Defense of Martin Luther (part 5)
| October 12, 2011 | Posted by Joseph Keysor under Blog |
1. Violence 2. Unclean language 3. Hostility to science and reason 4. Luther’s responsibility for later events in German history 5. Luther and German nationalism a. Some misconceptions b. Luther’s worldview 5 c. Modern nationalism Luther cannot be reasonably linked to a much later nationalism. 19th-century Germans nationalists were obsessed with Luther only because he…
In Defense of Martin Luther (part 4)
| September 30, 2011 | Posted by Joseph Keysor under Blog |
1. Violence 2. Unclean language 3. Hostility to science and reason 4. Luther’s responsibility for later events in German history 5. Luther and German nationalism a. Some misconceptions b. Luther’s worldview In response to the argument that Luther was responsible for later abuses of nationalism, we need to consider first, Luther’s overall world-view;…
In Defense of Martin Luther (part 3)
| September 15, 2011 | Posted by Joseph Keysor under Blog |
1. Violence 2. Unclean language 3. Hostility to science and reason 4. Luther’s responsibility for later events in German history 5. Luther and German nationalism a. Some misconceptions Before we examine the (in my view) greatest problem of Luther’s attitudes toward the Jews, we need to look at one more issue: the hideous and…
In Defense of Martin Luther (part 2)
| August 31, 2011 | Posted by Joseph Keysor under Blog, Short Essays |
1. Violence 2. Unclean language 3. Hostility to science and reason A third criticism is Luther’s alleged hostility to science and reason. Concerning science, it is claimed that his resistance to Copernicus’ new theory shows his ignorance – but his negative reference to “a certain new astrologer who proved that the earth moves” is dated…
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