Martin Luther, German Saviour: German Evangelical by James M. Stayer

By James M. Stayer

Theological trend-setters after the battle have been dogmatic or systematic theologians. no matter if males of definitely the right like Karl Holl or males of the left like Karl Barth, they desired to go back to Luther's primary Reformation theology and to justification via religion on my own. within the mid-1920s, even though, Barth observed the risks of Lutheran theocentrism wedded to German nationalism and moved in the direction of a extra Reformed Christology and a better serious distance from Luther. the opposite six significant Weimar-era theologians mentioned - Karl Holl, Friedrich Gogarten, Werner Elert, Paul Althaus, Emanuel Hirsch, and Erich Vogelsang - hooked up their theology to their Luther reports and to their hopes for rebirth of Germany after the humiliation of the Versailles order. To differing levels they offered Martin Luther because the German saviour and all other than Karl Holl, who died in 1926, labored out particularly theological purposes for helping Hitler whilst he got here to strength in 1933.

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His continuing confidence and his procurement in 1893 of a position for Holl in the work on editions of the church fathers under the 2O Martin Luther, German Saviour auspices of the Prussian Academy of Sciences probably rescued the younger man's academic career. In 1900 Holl obtained an associate professorship at Tubingen and in 1906, again through Harnack's good offices, a full professorship at the University of Berlin. 14 Whatever his early disinclination for the pastorate, Holl continued to be a man of religion, caught between the critical outlook of liberal academic theology and a personal struggle for faith.

53 Luther constantly lived his life as a man of religion in the study of Scripture; the Spirit inspired him through the Word. 55 Luther inhabited the mind of God by inspired study of the Word of 29 Karl Holl and the Luther Renaissance God; Karl Holl inhabited the mind of Luther through intuitive absorption of his writings in the Weimar Edition. Through Roll's influence, Reformation studies became for a time pre-eminently an exegetical study of Martin Luther. "57 He gained a critical sense of what he read - that the predictions of the Old Testament prophets were not always correct, that the accounts of Jesus' Resurrection clashed with one another, that the theology of James's epistle contradicted the Pauline theology, that the book of Hebrews, attributed by tradition to Paul, must have been written by someone else.

The exegete could not depart from the literal meaning, but the literal reading was not sufficient to grasp an author's intention. In interpreting the Bible, one needed grammar plus the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the source of inspiration for the biblical authors. "53 Luther constantly lived his life as a man of religion in the study of Scripture; the Spirit inspired him through the Word. 55 Luther inhabited the mind of God by inspired study of the Word of 29 Karl Holl and the Luther Renaissance God; Karl Holl inhabited the mind of Luther through intuitive absorption of his writings in the Weimar Edition.

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