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A FEW PRESS OPINIONS OF VOLUMES I-V.
CONTENTS
LUTHER
CHAPTER XXXV (Continued) LUTHER’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS SOCIETY AND EDUCATION
3. Elementary Schools and Higher Education
Luther’s Appeals on Behalf of the Schools
Polemical Trend of Luther’s Pedagogics
Luther’s Educational Plans
The Decline of the Schools Following in the Wake of the Innovations
Higher Education before Luther’s Day
Luther’s Success
4. Benevolence and Relief of the Poor
At the Close of the Middle Ages
Luther’s Efforts. The Primary Cause of their Failure
A Second Stumbling Block: Lack of Organisation
Influence of Luther’s Ethics. Robbery of Church Property Proves a Curse
Some Recent Excuses
5. Luther’s Attitude towards Worldly Callings
Luther’s Pessimism Regarding Various Callings. The Peasants
The Psychological Background. Luther’s Estrangement from Whole Classes of Society
The Merchant Class
Influence of Old-Testament Ideas
Usury and Interest
Luther on Unearned Incomes and Annuities
CHAPTER XXXVI THE DARKER SIDE OF LUTHER’S INNER LIFE. HIS AILMENTS
1. Early Sufferings, Bodily and Mental
Fits of Fear; Palpitations; Swoons
Nervousness and other Ailments
The so-called Temptations no Mere Morbid Phenomena
2. Psychic Problems of Luther’s Religious Development
Temptations to Despair
The Shadow of Pseudo-Mysticism
Other Ordeals
Summary
3. Ghosts, Delusions, Apparitions of the Devil
The Statements Concerning Luther’s Intercourse with the Beyond
The Disputation with the Devil on the Mass
Possession and Exorcism
4. Revelation and Illusion. Morbid Trains of Thought
Luther’s Insistence on Private Revelation
Some Apparent Withdrawals
The “Temptations” as one of Luther’s Bulwarks
Three Perverted Theories Dominating Luther’s Outlook
Other Abnormal Lines of Thought and Behaviour
5. Luther’s Psychology according to Physicians and Historians
Addendum. Some Medical Opinions on Nervous Degeneration, and Abnormal Ideas.
CHAPTER XXXVII LUTHER’S LATER EMBELLISHMENT OF HIS EARLY LIFE
1. Luther’s later Picture of his Convent Life and Apostasy
The Legend about his First Public Appearance
The Legend about his Years of Monkish Piety
2. The Reality. Luther’s Falsification of History
Monastic Days of Peace and Happiness. The Vows and their Breach
Some Doubtful Virtues
Luther’s Alterations of the Facts
The Monkish Nightmare
3. The Legend receives its last touch; how it was used
CHAPTER XXXVIII END OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. THE CHURCH-UNSEEN AND THE VISIBLE CHURCH-BY-LAW
1. From Religious Licence to Religious Constraint
Freedom as the Watchword
Intolerance Towards Catholics in Theory and Practice
Threats of Bloody Reprisals against Papists, Priestlings and Monks
The Death-Penalty Sectarians within the New Fold
Luther’s Self-justification and Excuses
Compulsory Attendance at Church
Opinions of Protestant Historians
Luther’s Spirit in his Fellows
2. Luther as Judge
The Conceit and the Obstinacy of the “Heretics”
“Heretics” who cannot be sure of their Cause
Where are your Miracles?
His Anger with Lemnius and Others
3. The Church-Unseen, its Origin and Early History
Invisibility of Luther’s Church
The Marks of the Church. Gradual Disappearance of the Old Conception of the Church
Origin and Early Outbuilding of the New Idea of the Church
Luther’s Later Attitude Towards the Idea of the Church. Objections
4. The Church becomes visible. Its organisation
5. Luther’s Tactics in Questions concerning the Church
The Erfurt Preachers in a Tight Place
Controversies with the Catholics on the Question of the Church
The Indefectibility of the Church and Her Thousand-Year-Long Error
Luther’s Tactics in the Interpretation of the Bible
CHAPTER XXXIX END OF LUTHER’S LIFE
1. The Flight from Wittenberg
2. Last Troubles and Cares
Theological Disruption
The Controversy on Clandestine Marriages
Difficulties with the State Church
The Present and the To-come
3. Luther’s Death at Eisleben (1546)
4. In the World of Legend
CHAPTER XL AT THE GRAVE
1. Luther’s fame among the friends he left behind
2. Luther’s Memory among the Catholics. The Question of His Greatness
3. Luther’s Fate in the First Struggles for his Spiritual Heritage
The Osiandric, Majorite, Adiaphoristic and Synergistic Controversies
Cryptocalvinism
The so-called formula of concord (1580)
4. Mutual Influence of the Two Camps. Growing Strength of the Catholic Church
Luther’s Churches
Progress and Gains of Catholicism
5. Luther as described by the Olden “Orthodox” Lutherans
6. Luther as seen by the Pietists and Rationalists
7. The Modern Picture of Luther
The latest efforts to portray Luther
The Janus-Picture of the Mediæval and Modern Luther
The “Religious” Reformer and the Hero of “Kultur”
A “Political” Luther?—Conclusion
XLI—APPENDIX I LUTHER’S WRITINGS AND THE EVENTS OF THE DAY ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
XLII—APPENDIX II ADDITIONS AND EMENDATIONS
1-2. Luther’s Visit to Rome
3. Luther’s conception of “Observance” and his conflict with his brother friars
4. Attack upon the “Self-righteous”
5. The collapse of the Augustinian Congregation
6. The Tower Incident (vol. I, pp. 388-400)
7. The Indulgence-Theses
8. The Temptations at the Wartburg
9. Prayer at the Wartburg
10. Luther’s state during his stay at the Coburg
11. Luther’s moral character
12. Luther’s views on lies
13. Luther’s lack of the missionary spirit
14. Notes
FOOTNOTES
INDEX
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