Did Luther Teach that Christ Committed Adultery?

Authors

Arthur Carl Piepkorn, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

Publication Date

6-1-1954

Document Type

Article

Keywords

luther, blasphemy, ginder, adultery, catholic

Submission Type

Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep

Abstract

As every paster discovers, Roman Catholic ignorance - clerical hardly less than lay-of Lutheran and Luther's theology is often abysmal.

Something of a new nadir, however, was achieved by the Rev. Richard Ginder in the Roman Catholic weekly, Our Sunday Visitor, Vol.XLII, No.44, February 28, 1954, page 12, when he wrote: "Did Martin Luther believe that Jesus was God?

"In his Table Talk,' Weimar edition, ii, 107, one reads the following hair-raising blasphemy: 'Christ committed adultery first of all with the woman at the well about whom St. John tells us. Was not everybody about Him saying: "Whatever has He been doing with her?" Secondly, with Mary Magdalen, and thirdly with the woman taken in adultery whom He dismissed so lightly. Thus even Christ, who was so righteous, must have been guilty of fornication before He died.' "

Disciplines

History of Christianity

Scripture References in this Resource (separated by semi-colons)

John 4:27; 2 Corinthians 5:21;

Submission Cost

Free

Submission Audience

Laity; Ministers; Scholars

Recommended Citation

Piepkorn, Arthur Carl (1954) "Did Luther Teach that Christ Committed Adultery?," Concordia Theological Monthly: Vol. 25, Article 30.
Available at: https://scholar.csl.edu/ctm/vol25/iss1/30