To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-3,8
"In 1520, his Appeal to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation on Christian state amendment was addressed to the Emperor and the German nobility, here Luther dealt with
--the universal priesthood of Christians
--and the ecclesiastical responsibility of the temporal power;
he suggested abolishing the celibacy of priests and masses for the dead, and reforming education.
On temporal authority and the limitations in obeying it was
published in 1523. Luther exalted temporal authority, based on divine laws, but rejected faith-imposed obligations. It is the doctrine of the “two kingdoms” to which Christians were submitted, one temporal and the other spiritual.
Luther expressed himself on the Peasants’ war in his satirical writing Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants.
Luther also pondered over the use of weapons. He put out his views in several different treatises, namely On temporal authority in 1523 and Can soldiers be in a state of grace? (1526).
In his Sermon to the armies Luther showed the Turks as God’s enemies. In his War against the Turks Luther admitted the role of the Emperor but questioned his universal power, because he was neither at the head of Christianity nor the protector of the Gospel and of faith.
In 1536 Luther published The duty of civilian authorities to oppose Anabaptists with corporeal chastisements, in which he approved of the repression in the city of Münster when it was captured in 1525 and where John of Leyden had instituted a Theocratic and polygamous regime.
In his Exhortation on prayer against the Turk published in 1541 after Suleiman the Magnificent invaded Hungary, Luther presented the Turkish peril as a divine punishment and urged his fellow countrymen to repent."
On temporal authority and the limitations in obeying it was
Luther expressed himself on the Peasants’ war in his satirical writing Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants.
Luther also pondered over the use of weapons. He put out his views in several different treatises, namely On temporal authority in 1523 and Can soldiers be in a state of grace? (1526).
In his Sermon to the armies Luther showed the Turks as God’s enemies. In his War against the Turks Luther admitted the role of the Emperor but questioned his universal power, because he was neither at the head of Christianity nor the protector of the Gospel and of faith.
In 1536 Luther published The duty of civilian authorities to oppose Anabaptists with corporeal chastisements, in which he approved of the repression in the city of Münster when it was captured in 1525 and where John of Leyden had instituted a Theocratic and polygamous regime.
In his Exhortation on prayer against the Turk published in 1541 after Suleiman the Magnificent invaded Hungary, Luther presented the Turkish peril as a divine punishment and urged his fellow countrymen to repent."
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