Statue of Martin Luther at Vatican

[yankeesouth]

I took it with a grain of “if this moves Christians one inch closer to ‘That They All Be One’

Seemed more like I’m okay, you’re okay, stay where you are.

 

[CradleRC58]

http://m.ncregister.com/blog/darmstrong/50-reasons-why-martin-luther-was-excommunicated

 

[FirstFiveEighth]

I was just being tongue-in-cheek

 

[GKMotley]

Ok. That’s a relief.

 

[otrrl]

A couple years back I bought a copy of The Little Rock Scripture Study Bible, bearing the imprimatur of the Bishop of Little Rock, Arkansas. There was an introductory article by a religious sister who was a professor of scripture.

In this article, introducing the LRSSB, she pointed out how great Luther’s translation of the Bible was, “among the other great accomplishments of the Reformation.” I wrote both the Sister and the Bishop to inquire what those other “great accomplishments” of the Reformation were. I was never told what those other great accomplishments were. I thought her remark was a puzzling way to introduce a different version of the Bible. But, they may be out there, someplace.

 

[abucs]

My main beef with Henry was the destruction of the monasteries and destruction of all the saints’ bones and other history, and him taking over all the historic churches so now they’re all Anglican when they started off as proper Catholic churches.

I read that the dissolution of the British monasteries not only reduced the capacity to help the poor and sick in Britain but also might have set back the industrial revolution by 200 years.

Apparently a pre-requisite for that revolution was the creation of cast iron which is a 2 part process involving heating the metal at very high temperatures.

While excavating one of the destroyed monasteries a type of iron was found that must have utilised a technology that required such heat. Evidently the monks found a way to produce the heat needed to make cast iron but were snuffed out during Britain’s protestant rebellion.

Interesting exercise in ‘what might have been’.

 

[AlNg]

I am surprised that there is a statue in the Vatican honoring Martin Luther. Martin Luther was quite an anti-semite and as well he wrote with hostility against many Catholic beliefs.

 

[greenrangerx]

To be fair, a number of Luther’s criticisms of the Church in his day were valid and were later addressed during the Council of Trent. If it wasn’t for him, that Council may have never happened and those issues may have never been addressed. Who knows… if he had been alive during the Council, maybe he would have accepted the reforms in the Church and been reconciled with the Church.

 

[stpurl]

OR let’s say that if Luther had remained a good and faithful priest, and had brought his concerns to the table in the usual way (as apparently other priests did), he might have been able to contribute help ‘on the inside’ and be St. Martin Luther. How do you know the Council might never have happened? There were other protestants around (Calvin, Knox) so it wasn’t all Luther here. And actually there were no valid criticisms of "The Church in his day’; there were valid concerns about the actions of certain priests regarding certain practices which they abused. That’s not the same as criticizing the Church as rejecting dogma, which he did.