Archive for December, 2007
Wittenberg and Aristotle
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007Logia has called for manuscripts on the topic of “Wittenberg and Athens” for their Reformation 2008 issue. So at the end of November, I reworked my paper titled Wittenberg Reforms in the University which I wrote as part of my doctoral program. I reworked it to shorten and improve the text and fix up some [...]
Two down, on three
Monday, December 10th, 2007The second Preface and the Afterword are completed. The German afterword was especially interesting as it contained several historical allusions and Luther’s recounting of a couple of stories from his early history including Luther’s recollection of his being a student and reading a book containing sermons of John Hus. There is also an interesting story [...]
Three Luther documenta completed
Monday, December 10th, 2007I finally finished the third Luther work assigned to me by CPH for translation. It has been submitted for editing.
This document came from 1537 and was an introduction by Luther to a work titled “A disputation regarding the monarchy of the pope.”
In this document Luther was quite severe in his judgement of the papacy [...]
Three forwards and second assignment done
Monday, December 10th, 2007I finally finished the third Luther preface and turned them in for editing. This preface was written by Luther for publication with a work titled “A disputation concerning the monarchy of the pope.” Luther judges the papacy harshly in the work especially in regard to the claim to have authority over the church [...]
