Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been more books written about Luther than about any other Christian figure, including Jesus. According to Dean John Dillenberger of Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union, seminary students are showing a new interest in Luther's own writings, finding in them an existential kinship to that favored secular rebel with a cause, Albert Camus. During this anniversary year of the Reformation, there will be Luther-honoring services and seminars in Protestant churches around the globe -including several in East Germany, where the atheist Ulbricht regime officially regards Luther as a spiritual precursor of Marxism for his fight against...
...Secular Rulers: "A wise prince is a rare bird indeed; still more so a pious prince. They are usually the greatest fools or the worst knaves on earth. They are God's jailers and hangmen, and His divine wrath needs them to punish the wicked...
...civilization. Luther's conviction that all men stand equally naked before God constitutes the theological substratum justifying liberal democracy. His teaching on "the two kingdoms"-that man with his soul belongs to the church, and with his body to the world-contributed to the rise of the modern secular state. Luther's con ception of the "priesthood of all believers" implied that man served God best in his daily existence-the basis of the Protestant ethic of work and achievement. His insistence that men must read God's word contributed to the spread of literacy...
...that he has "done something that puts God in his debt if he puts down a nice thick carpet in the chancel hall-a sort of afterlife insurance policy." Some laymen feel that all too many clerics are trying to earn what Marty calls "Brownie Points" by engaging in secular crusades-picketing against Viet Nam or for civil rights...
Martin Luther was nothing if not eloquent, on everything both sacred and secular. A sampling of his opinions...