Becoming Luther, part 3
BECOMING LUTHER (part 3): A Spiritual Diary September 4, 1525 – Wittenberg The Peasants’ Revolt has ended in catastrophe. Thousands dead. My tract against the murdering hordes has brought universal […]
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BECOMING LUTHER (part 3): A Spiritual Diary September 4, 1525 – Wittenberg The Peasants’ Revolt has ended in catastrophe. Thousands dead. My tract against the murdering hordes has brought universal […]
BECOMING LUTHER (part 2): A Spiritual Diary The Break with Rome (1518-1525) February 28, 1518 – Wittenberg The 95 theses have spread across Germany like wildfire. I wrote them in […]
BECOMING LUTHER (part 1): A Spiritual Diary An imaginative reconstruction of Martin Luther’s inner life, drawn from his letters, Table Talk, and theological writings, woven with philosophical reflections on consciousness, […]
I’m Coming Back After John 14:1-3, Song of Solomon 3.6 (and Dr Who Season 4, Episode 13 River’s Song) The last time I saw you—the real you—you materialized at my […]
Beyond Human Limitations After 2 Corinthians 12:9 With open face to your precious Word, desperately I hunt for You in my broken wanting, glass-brittle, web-thin in the hush. Something stirs in […]
Simon Peter, after the crucifixion As my mind surveys my Master’s anointed head, His bruised heel, His struggle to give His life for mine, to drink the bitter cup, to […]
I thought I heard his footsteps faintly like a cool wind rustling through my mind when as a young boy. Jesus called me by my name; I heard him whisper […]
One of the devil’s most subtle temptations is dealt with in Letter 7 where Screwtape instructs Wormwood concealing the presence of devils. Moderns mostly regard devils as comic figures in red tights. […]
In Letter 4 Screwtape covers the subject of prayer and instructs Wormwood how to tie his ‘patient’ up in knots. He does this by trying to get him to conjure […]
C. S. Lewis published his much acclaimed Screwtape Letters in 1942. Drawing on his own long experience of conversion from atheism to Christianity, he constructed a story of a senior Devil named […]
Before his conversion on the Damascus road (Acts 9.1-19), the apostle Paul would have found the idea of a crucified messiah abhorrent because of Deuteronomy 21.23 (‘for he that is […]
God is light with us, God is light behind us, whispered into time. Is his light abiding? Springing as a clay bird, his wondrous voice encircling, strikes me like a […]
‘There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when […]
According to Christian theology, sin and guilt are the result of Adam’s transgression of God’s moral law, and are passed down and become ours individually by imputation. Sin can only […]
Blaise Pascal was born in 1623 at Clermont – Ferrand, Auvergne, in France. He was home-schooled by his father Etienne, a lawyer who was also an able mathematician and physicist […]
A Jew’s pattern of moral behaviour involves absolute adherence to the literal directives of Torah (the Five books of Moses) especially the 613 mitzvot or commandments as classified by Maimonides […]