Luther, Martin : (1483-1546) German biblical scholar, linguist, founder of Protestant Reformation. His socio-religious concepts laid a new basis for German society.
... ic descent from Martin Luther to Adolf Hitler is easy to draw. Both Luther and Hitler were obsessed by a demonologized universe inhabited by Jews. ‘Know, Christian’, wrote Luther, ‘that next to the devil thou hast no enemy more cruel, more venomous and violent than a true Jew.’ Hitler himself, in that early dialogue with Dietrich Eckart, asserted that the later, anti-Semitic Luther was the genuine... The Roots of Nazism The Roots of Nazism 10. The Jewish Question Hitler and his God Luther, the anti-Semite Then came the Reformation with the towering personality of Martin Luther, who threw his long shadow ahead in German history. In a previous chapter we have seen him as the precursor of nationalism; here now we will have a look at his influence on the... programme proposed by Luther remind their readers that it was exactly what Hitler, who called Luther “that powerful enemy of the Jews”, would implement – adding a point of his own which for others had remained unthinkable, at least to such an extent. “The historical connection of the Lutheran anti-Judaism with the National-Socialist anti-Semitism is clear for all to see.” 558 “Luther was a racist pure ...
... Renaissance, its most powerful voice being that of Martin Luther. Around this time, the awareness of a difference between the Roman-Latin-Welsh south and the Aryan-Nordic-Germanic north was mooted for the first time. “Luther detested the urban and humanistic culture of the Renaissance, which was a threat to the simple peasant piety he admired … Luther was the only religious reformer to identify himself... as the first great expression of the Germanic soul, rejecting Catholic Christianity as Latin, un-German and cosmopolitan, a threat to the Teutonic people second only to international Jewry.” 527 Luther’s attitude and the enthusiastic response it encountered resulted in the fact that, as Albert Speer noted, “fundamentally the Renaissance skirted Germany when it spread from Italy to France and England... England. Perhaps one of the roots of Hitler’s successes may be traced to this failure on Germany’s part to participate in humanistic culture.” 528 In the series of religious wars following Luther’s reformation, the terrible Thirty Years’ War devastated the lands we call Germany and left them backward and exhausted for centuries to come. One of the consequences was that Germany remained a patchwork of ...
... Church to bow to authority. Martin Luther’s popular appeal lay in his claim that every individual had the right to approach God directly – “every man is his own priest” – but he could not prevent that this originally spiritual way also hardened into a Church, which broke up into a manifold of Churches, all based on some individual experience or other. That Luther was not a solitary phenomenon but... and going back to the in Europe unparalleled tradition of mystics like Hadewych, Meister Eckhart and Angelus Silesius. He recognized that the Protestant theologians after Luther’s death were “shallow quarrellers” who nipped Luther’s inspiration in the bud. “I have the strong feeling that I have to steer my publishing house in the direction of a deepened religion without dogmas, and that the coming period... killed for resisting baptism.) One German author puts it as follows: the Catholic Church was always considered “a foreign presence within the spirit of the Germanic people”. 489 The response with which Luther met in 1517 was much more than instant enthusiasm: the Germans had been ready for a long time “to recapture the fortress stolen by Christianity”. To be sure, the Christianization of the heathen ...
... , and even non-humans although human in appearance (such as the Jews). The German stage was set for Martin Luther (1483-1546). “It fell to Luther to amplify considerably the rise of a nationalism which fused with the Reformation and gave to Lutheranism its specifically German hue.” 382 Luther had travelled to Rome and seen there with his own eyes the abominations around the Chair of the “Antichrist”... myths when they are held to be the truth by armed fanatics. One of the great German Renaissance men was the adventurous knight Ulrich von Hutten (1488-1523), patriot, satirist and supporter of Luther’s cause. He made the historical figure of Arminius, the Cheruscian, into “a real cult figure” of German nationalism and Nazism as the German who had stood up to the Romans and dealt them, in the year... middle, were surrounded and threatened, and that they had to stand up to the other nations. The humanists were the first to create “the Germany-Rome antithesis” (von See), which reached a climax in Luther. The Germans now felt themselves different from the Roman-Latin-Welsch peoples; Protestants would fight Catholics, Kultur would confront Zivilisation . Eventually the Germans would declare themselves ...
... the great industrialists and by the Pan-Germans – in fact by the whole block of nationalist reactionaries. They were also supported by the Protestant Church, which since the times of its founder, Martin Luther, had always been a nationalist Church. This Church, addressing the faithful every Sunday from the pulpit, was a very influential voice in the concert of opinions, which was already essentially ...
... You must have heard of Martin Luther, the German priest who initiated the Reformation and started Protestantism as opposed to the Roman Catholic Church. Once he got into a mood of great depression. For days he would not smile and would hardly talk. One day his wife, fed up with his "blues", dressed herself in total black as if for mourning and appeared before him. Luther was surprised and asked why... why she had worn such clothes. She exclaimed: "God is dead!" Luther angrily retorted: "God can never die!" Then his wife quietly said: "If that is so, what is there in the world to depress anyone?" Luther immediately came to his senses and from that day never wore a gloomy look. As long as the Supreme Light and Love exists behind all the changing play of sun and shadow that is human life -even ...
... they seek to suppress him as a destructive agency perilous to social security, political order or religious tradition; but he stands there and can no other [according to the famous statement of Martin Luther], because to destroy is his mission, to destroy falsehood and lay bare a new foundation of truth.” With the individualistic stage “the Age of Protestantism has begun, the Age of Reason, the Age ...
... answers did not any longer satisfy a generation which, after all, had come alive to the questions and criticisms of the Renaissance and Enlightenment thinkers – not to forget the stance taken by Martin Luther of the individual’s right to turn towards God directly and be saved by his personal faith, without the interference of a religious institution. H.P. Blavatsky’s Theosophy, founded in 1875, had ...
... But what about Jesus Christ? Although they had been “badly baptized”, the Germans considered themselves a Christian nation, in a way the only real Christians, as proclaimed to the world by Martin Luther. Was Christ, the founder of their faith, not a Jew? Chamberlain contended that he was not. At the time Christ walked upon the earth Galilee was inhabited by non-Jewish tribes. Christ had “a large ...
... presence of devils and angels was an accepted fact. People even claimed to meet angels and devils. Martin Luther records his own experience. Once at midnight when he had fallen asleep over his writing-table, a slight noise disturbed him. Waking up, he saw the devil standing in one corner of his room. Luther picked up his ink-pot and threw it at the devil, and the devil vanished. I suppose the devil didn't ...
... × See Chapter 1: “The Big Picture”. × This refers to Martin Luther’s words before the Diet of Worms, at the critical moment of his revolt against the Pope and the Emperor: “Here I stand, I can no other.” ... today they keep cropping up in the thinking of writers who deem themselves positivists, materialists, reductionists, atheists. The Reformation was the direct offspring of the Renaissance (its leaders, Luther included, were learned Renaissance men); it was followed by the Enlightenment, the high tide of Reason in the West; the Enlightenment resulted in the American and French Revolutions, followed by the... Sri Aurobindo: Essays in Philosophy and Yoga, p. 143. × See e.g. Martin Barnal: Black Athena, and Christos C. Evangeliou: The Hellenic Philosophy – between Europe, Asia and Africa. × ...
... so on, the barbarians gave up their wanderings and formed the centres that would become the urban Europe of history. Martin Luther King Jr. In modern times, one of the clearest examples of the Love of Jesus applied to a social problem was the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. in the movement which successfully led to the elimination of the racial segregation which degraded the black people ...
... obscure rumblings of the old Falsehood rolled from East to West and everywhere: in the Pacific, France won the dubious honor of becoming the fifth nuclear nation. There was the assassination of Martin Luther King, the assassination of John Kennedy's brother. The invasion of Czechoslovakia, the candidacy of Nixon. Finally, the gold crisis, the "worst one since 1930," the London stockmarket closed... ...
... what, or real and tangible Truth ,.. It is the individual who has to become a discoverer, a pioneer.’ 42 The renovating truth-impulse of Nature in this individual is then so strong that, like Martin Luther, ‘he stands there and can no other.’ In Sri Aurobindo’s view, the revolution of the individual will ultimately lead up to the subjective period — not of egocentrism in the psychological sense as ...
... educational system. As he studied and experienced the world of education, he applied the insights of many contemporary thinkers and philosophers, such as Sartre, Mounier, Erich Fromm, Louis Althusser, Martin Luther King, Che Guevera, Unamuno and Marcuse. But he arrived at his own prescription for education, which seeks to respond to the concrete realities of Latin America. In 1959, Freire presented his ...
... Western scholars to find an antithesis in every field of historical truth. From their own history they come to learn that Christianity arose as a revolt against the idolatry of the Romans, again Martin Luther and Protestantism stood out against the Roman Catholic Church. Likewise they are, as it were, eager to discover a revolt in the religious history of India. It is not that such a spirit of antithesis ...
... more remarkable than The Tao of Physics? Yours sincerely, BEDE GRIFFITHS 21 rue Francois Martin, Pondicherry - 605 001 16.2.83 Dear Father Griffiths, I was glad to hear from you. I have been keeping in touch with your writings over many years. Recently Father Martin sent me your Marriage of East and West. I have read it carefully and enjoyed reading it. I have many things... Church; nor Page 151 perhaps would he have responded so exultantly to the panpsychic or pantheistic Nature-mysticism of the young Wordsworth. I don't remember your mentioning Luther anywhere, but I would not have been surprised if, like Chesterton, a fellow-convert, you had called him, in spite of his crudities, "a great man", a compliment which only of late has become possible... has come in for criticism at their hands. What I have seen highly recommended as a truly scientific survey is Pagel's The Cosmic Code (Simon & Schuster, New York). After writing to Father Martin in connection with you I wrote out a long piece on The Tao of Physics. It has been lying among my papers and one of these days I'll put it in Mother India and let you have a copy of the issue. ...
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