PhiloWikiConceptsPhilosophersBooksInteractive graph

Concept

Martin Luther

Martin Luther
Lucas Cranach the Elder · Public domain · source

Overview

German priest and theologian (1483–1546)

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Possible passages

Found by search and not yet checked by a person; they may only mention the idea in passing.

  1. 2. The _Small Catechism_ was written by _Dr. Martin Luther, the great Reformer of the Church._ Luther was born at Eisleben, a small town in Germany, November 10, 1483, and died at the same place, February 18, 1546. He published his _Small Catechism in the year 1529,_ for the benefit of the common people and the children, who are most in need of such instruction. 3. Our Catechism is a small book, indeed, but it is a…

    George Mezger, Lessons in the Small Catechism of Dr. Martin Luther For the Senior Department of Lutheran Sunday-Schools and for General Use

    States what Martin Luther is; the book is titled for Martin Luther.

    Read the chapter · Open in the reader

  2. The scene, for example, between Götz and brother Martin, where Martin Luther is clearly suggested, contains ideas which Goethe could only have borrowed from a time such as his own when people began once more to wail over the conditions of monastic life, how they durst not drink wine, could only sleep off their meals, were at the mercy of evil desires and generally must submit to the three intolerable vows of…

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 1

    States what Martin Luther is; the author is tied to Martin Luther in the knowledge graph.

    Read the chapter · Open in the reader

  3. To call him a spiritualist would be as erroneous as to call him a sensualist. . . . Eternal praise to the man whom we have to thank for the deliverance of our most precious possessions." And again speaking of Luther's work: "Thus was established in Germany spiritual freedom, or as it is called, freedom of thought. Thought became a right and the decisions of reason legitimate." The specific correctness of the above…

    John Dewey, German philosophy and politics

    States what Martin Luther is.

    Read the chapter · Open in the reader

Philosophers who discussed Martin Luther

Related ideas

Opposing perspectives

Place in the tradition

Part of Antireligion.

Explore Martin Luther in the interactive graph →