Luther's Academic Relations to Erfurt and Wittenberg

Authors

P E. Kretzmann, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

Publication Date

4-1-1930

Document Type

Article

Keywords

erfurt, luther, wittenberg, academic, augustinian order, theological, staupitz

Submission Type

Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep

Abstract

The word academic is here used in the special sense of something Agreeing with scholastic rules, customs, and usages; for the age in which Luther lived was very particular in its observance of such relations. And although Luther, in his personal opinions and judgments, made use of great freedom in analyzing such customs, yet his abhorrence of any form of radicalism kept him from actions which might have been regarded as iconoclastic, also in the field of academic courtesies. In other words, while he was not necessarily conscientious and punctilious about these customs, he took part in their observance with a manifest absence of self-consciousness. It was in agreement with a principle which he copied from the great apostle, a maxim that caused him to become all things to all men if he could do so without denying the truth in any manner.

Disciplines

History of Christianity

Submission Cost

Free

Submission Audience

Laity; Ministers; Scholars

Recommended Citation

Kretzmann, P E. (1930) "Luther's Academic Relations to Erfurt and Wittenberg," Concordia Theological Monthly: Vol. 1, Article 35.
Available at: https://scholar.csl.edu/ctm/vol1/iss1/35