Word: luthers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George Luther Lincoln, A.M., Romance Languages...
...shall be condemned for a single passage out of its context. In one fell stroke this clause would outlaw the Bible, Shakespeare, the Greek and Roman classics, Swift, Chaucer, the whole of Restoration comedy, Milton, Fielding, Voltaire, Flaubert, Goethe, Balzac, the writings of the early Christian fathers, Martin Luther, the Encyclopedia Britannica and the dictionary...
Early Protestants (after Luther) set up the Bible to replace the authority of the Church. Their zealous quotation of the Bible soon made them more dogmatic than Catholics. Even Isaac Newton wrote with unperturbed faith about the miracles in Genesis. But his grand children-in-science, Darwin, Huxley, and historical criticism, hinted that not even the Bible was inerrant, so that now Steinmetz, a Unitarian, is forced to say that religion and science are unrelated...
...capitals. The musty savour of the rush-strewn cubicles still adheres to a leaf from the manuscript of St. Jerome, so old that it is little more than an ash held together by the heavy letters. A textbook by Peter Lombard, the almost illegible sermons of Duns Scotus, and Luther's German Catechism are all there as a symbol of the care with which the learning of ancients was kept alive during the middle ages...
Among the catechisms are those of Edward VI, Luther, the Council of Trent, Father Vaux, an English Reformer, John Calvin, and others both earlier and later. The primers, which usually contain catechisms and other elementary religious instruction, include copies of two of those issued by Henry the Eighth and the New England Primer, on which our ancestors in the eighteenth century were brought...