The dawn of Wittenberg. From the door of Wittenberg, ring hammer blows are coming from further blows, blows whose strength comes on the day of Pentecost.
's 95 theses nailed on October 31, 1517 at the gate were an event that affected not only his time (and boy, did), but its magnitude exceeded its space and time, so it is always appropriate to reflect on their implications which remain as valid today as yesterday, as usual.
Considerations on Reform:
Cicero said "Magistra vitae est History" History is teacher of life.
Therefore it is necessary to distinguish between different conceptualizations of the Reformation, as they determine understanding and affect our view of it, its origin and its environment. Because
finally weighed in our approach to an event experienced in the history of mankind, which had tremendous impact on the future social, political and religious, whatever our theological position and even those who do not.
First, there is a historical-cultural concept, which was coined over 100 years ago, where Luther is weighted as the key architect that base structure that lead to the German language. Idea exaggerated, but shows the importance of the translation of Scripture into the language of Germanic people. Likewise
projects him as a champion of the liberation of reason and praised as a humanitarian for his interpretations of man as being "imago Dei."
Through these premises can be linked with Erasmus and humanism, an elucidation that no longer enforced. Because Luther
away all pose shining on humans, however it displays the inability to achieve that for which it was created, but there is a divine intervention that affects entirely.
And no wonder, because the Reform nourishes its roots in scriptural concepts (biblically speaking), where the vision of man answers his own reality. There
an inescapable contradiction between the two visions.
And throughout the history of this 490 years from Wittenberg to the present day, man continues to certify this biblical vision that has nothing to do with the prevailing optimism with humanism.
Man is rather pointless and innocent, so do not be confused with humanism Reform start from different assumptions and reach different conclusions. Ergo
historical-cultural concept of the reform fails in a fundamental and diverges to an interpretation violated.
Now to the nationalist interpretation of the Reformation, embodied in the Nazi ideologue Paul de Lagarde and which is supported National Socialism, in their desperate search to connect with the roots of being a German national.
It shows Luther as the paradigm of German hero who rises against the oppression and humiliation to which the nation was under Germanic, by the power represented in the Roman curia. Beyond
political manipulation of ethnicity, this amazing flawed interpretation, which makes a total falsehood.
can not argue that Luther loved and had strong ties to their village, but had in his life a most important foundation that drove him.
His statement is clear:
"When Germany bury the last of their pastors, will bury itself. "
Again Luther expresses what is infallible and eternal, what remains and is really important ultimately is no national nor racial. And he's focused on perpetuating this forever, the Word of God.
Another possible interpretation is the religion, in its three aspects, Protestant, Roman and independent.
The first formulation, puts on a veneer theological reality institutional confrontation does not end with the earthly, but the field is fixed in dogmatic.
Luther's theological statement is not debatable because of its strong foundation Bible, but tying this formulation to the purely dialectical, cancels key aspects of the Reformation and difficult to understand, for example, its survival nearly five centuries later.
Interestingly, the basis of this difficulty rests on historical ignorance, in particular the context of the Reformation and the history of the Church.
From Roman orthodoxy interprets the Reformation as the major disaster that struck the man in the sixteenth century (and susbsiguientes), and dragged him outside the Church (Roman Catholic).
ensure that reform drives the Christian to a "casus belli" divisional and even secularism based posterior shoulder in thoughts born in Wittenberg.
This subterfuge is called history. Secularism does not
dwells on the Reformation, but the progress of reason from natural science and human knowledge. It is the human intellect, from a secular view, what differentiates it from an irrational animal. Therefore naturally opposed to man's vision from the scriptures. Finally
position, which could be defined as independent, says the Reformation in its true setting: the History of the Church.
It envisions a dimension Luther reformer, your search is a restoration, in a more strongly orthodox renewal.
His thesis suggests the change of the existing, rather than creating something new. According to the thought of Luther, the Roman institution was deformed and had a course of abandonment of biblical truth, it was necessary to return to the roots.
It is not intended as a rebel or a revolutionary, but rather as someone who calls what there is to reform (in its essential nature). In any case, never considers the possibility of a new institution, a new church.
therefore can be said that the force of the hammer is at Pentecost Wittenberg, the Protestant Church is not born on October 31, 1517, there emerges a new church, the Reformation is a vital link in the history of the Church that is born on the first day of Pentecost and until then we can trace the origins of the Protestant Reformation.
Dawn of Wittenberg, is the dawning of the Church at Pentecost.
CEIHE
Author's note: Much of this work, summarized here as an outline, based on the works (mostly translated) of authors like J. Atkinson, G. Bergmann, D. Olivier, A . Greiner, J. Grau, H, Liljie and the new perspective that is working Daniel Pisoni and his research team insertive aspects of the Reformation in Western thought.
