Harnack, etc., on Luther’s abandonment of individual
points of Christian doctrine and destruction of the
older idea of faith: The Canon and true interpretation
of Scripture; speculative theology. Luther’s own
admissions that Christian doctrine is a chain the
rupture of any link of which involves the rupture
of the whole. Luther’s inconsistencies in matters
of doctrine as instanced by Protestant theologians:
Original sin and unfreedom; Law and Gospel; Penance;
Justification and good works; his teaching on merit, on
the sacraments and the supper; on the Church and Divine
worship _pages_ 432-469
2. LUTHER AS A POPULAR RELIGIOUS WRITER. THE CATECHISM.
Collected works: Luther’s preface to the Latin
and German Collections. The Church-postils and
Home-postils; advantages and shortcomings of his
popular works; his silence regarding self-denial.
Origin and character of the Larger and Smaller
Catechisms. His Catechisms compared with the older
catechetic works _pages_ 470-494
3. THE GERMAN BIBLE.
The work of translation completed in 1534; how it was
launched on the public and the extent of its success.
The various revisions of the work and the notes of the
meetings held under Luther’s presidency. His anxiety
to use only the best German; “Chancery German.” The
language of the German Bible, its scholarship; its
inaccuracies; Luther’s “Sendbrieff” to defend his
addition of the word “alone” in Romans iii. 28.
The corrections of Emser the Dresden “scribbler.”
How Luther belittled certain books of Scripture.
Some side-lights into the psychology of Luther’s
translation. The Bible in earlier ages; the “Bible
in chains.” Luther’s indebtedness to earlier German
translators _pages_ 494-546
4. LUTHER’S HYMNS.
His efforts to interest his friends in the making of
hymns. His best-known hymn, “A safe stronghold our God
is still.” Other hymns; their character and musical
setting. The “Hymn for the Out-driving of Antichrist”
once falsely ascribed to Luther _pages_ 546-556
CHAPTER XXXV. LUTHER’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS SOCIETY AND
EDUCATION (continued in Vol. VI) _pages_ 557-606
1. HISTORICAL OUTLINES FOR JUDGING OF HIS SOCIAL WORK.
Luther’s “signal services” as they appear to certain
modern Protestants. The fell results of his twin
principle: 1º, that the Church is alien to the world,
and 2º, has no power to make binding laws _pages_ 557-568
2. THE STATE AND THE STATE CHURCH.
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