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The German empire, German Lutherans believed, was the God-blessed state of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans. "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers," Paul had said, "for there is no power but of God." Luther had explained this himself, saying: "We must firmly establish...
Romans & Revelation. In 1918. Kaiser Wilhelm II, the last Supreme Bishop of German Lutheranism, abdicated. Throne and Altar fell apart, and the Protestant state church, after almost 400 years under the state's umbrella, was out in a misty modern world, on its own.
Otto Dibelius was one of the first to see that here was an entirely new premise for church and state relations, which Martin Luther, friend and loyal subject of Christian princes, had never bargained for. The German state no longer claimed divine sanction. Far from being the God blessed state...
In class, she bounces about like a woman pursued; outside, she is apt to be found throwing an apiarian party, serving her guests dishes of honey just the way the Romans did. She has helped organize Latin Weeks in 30 different states, still keeps up a lively correspondence with teachers...
Yet, like so many U.S. critics, the Italian reviewers were tough. Wrote Il Messaggero: "Overloaded, slow, cold, sometimes even annoying, without that alacrity, that concentration, that surprise, that stimulus . . ." Giornale d'Italia: "Artificial characters . . . commonplace grandiosity ..." Il Tempo: "[Quo Vadis] leaves the Italian public disturbed and perplexed. We have...