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“…[Luther] [a] young monk turned his attention to theology, but, unfortunately, the theological training given to the
Augustinian novices at this period was of the poorest and most meagre kind. He
studied little if anything of the works of the early Fathers, and never learned
to appreciate Scholasticism as expounded by its greatest masters, St. Thomas or
St. Bonaventure. His knowledge of Scholastic Theology was derived mainly from
the works of the rebel friar William of Occam, who, in his own time, was at
constant war with the Popes, and who, during the greater part of his life, if
not at the moment of his death, was under sentence of excommunication from the
Church. The writings of such a man,
betraying as they did an almost complete unacquaintance with the Scriptures and
exaggerating men's natural powers to the undervaluing or partial exclusion of
Grace, exercised a baneful influence on a man of Luther's tastes and
temperaments. Accepted by Luther as characteristic of Scholastic Theology, such
writings prejudiced him against the entire system.
Luther defended the view that free will in man and all power of
doing good were destroyed by original sin, and that everything meritorious accomplished by man is really
done by God. His old opponent at the university, Bodenstein (surnamed Carlstadt
from his place of birth), declared himself openly in favour of Luther's
teaching on free will, and published a reply to Eck [well known German-Catholic
apologist].”
MacCaffrey
writes of the Lutheran devastation- not much tolerance is shown toward
Catholics or apostates, as Luther gave his movement over to state power:
“…monasteries and churches were plundered,
and several of the nobles were put to death. Soon the lay princes of Germany, alarmed by the course of the revolutionaries
and fearing for the safety of their own territories, assembled their forces and
marched against the insurgents. The war was carried on mercilessly on both
sides, close upon 100,000 peasants being killed in the field, while many of
their leaders, amongst them Thomas Munzer, were arrested and condemned to
death. In nearly every important engagement the peasants, as might be expected,
suffered defeat, so that before the end of 1525 the movement was, practically
speaking, at an end. Luther, who had
been consulted by both sides, and who had tried to avoid committing himself to
either, frightened by the very violence of the storm he had been instrumental
in creating, issued an appeal to the princes calling upon them to show no mercy
to the forces of disorder….”
In the name of reform, the Church was raped, stripped, melted down
and debased:
“Luther insisted on individual
judgment during his campaign against the Catholic Church, he had no difficulty in urging the civil rulers to force all their
subjects to join the new religious body. The goods of the Catholic Church were
to be appropriated, some of them being set aside for the support of the new
religious organisation, while the greater portion of them found their way into
the royal treasury.”
Civil war and butchery spread across
Europe. One can argue quite cogently
that Church needed a thorough cleaning and reform. On this no dispute is raised. But calling the open barbarity of the
Protesters and their large stacks of dead bodies and broken structures a ‘reform’;
and then further to deduce that only science and the modern world including Max
Weber’s ridiculous assertion of the Protestant work-ethic emanated from such
carnage; is truly a remarkable display of historical revisionism – and lying.