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Smith, Preserved
1921.
A Decade of Luther Study.
Harvard Theological Review,
Vol. 14,
Issue. 2,
p.
107.
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Luther and Toleration
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2009
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What were Luther's views on religious toleration? These are set forth for the first timein his little book, Von weltlicher Obrigkeit, wie weit man ihr Gehorsam schuldig sei (1523). I give here a brief abstract of this epoch-making treatise.
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page 131 note 1 Dr. Martin Luthers sämmttiche Werke, Erlangen 1826–1857, Bd.22, 59–105. Extracts in Kōstlin, Martin Luther: sein Leben und seine Schriften, 5th Aufl., 1., 582–4 (1903). (References are to the first Erlangen edition unless otherwise noted.)
page 133 note 1 Luthers Stellung zur Politik Leipzig, 1899, 8.Google Scholar
page 133 note 2 53: 104–8 (1522).
page 133 note 3 Deutsche Kultur-und Sittengeschichte (6. Aufl.), 264.
page 134 note 1 53: 114–8.
page 134 note 2 Hartwig, 14.
page 134 note 3 Bilder aus der deutschen Vergangenheit: aus dem Jahrhundert der Reform., 102.
page 135 note 1 54: 141 (1530); 25:50 (1531).
page 135 note 2 53; 333 (1525).
page 135 note 3 45: 115.
page 135 note 4 22:82, 83 (1523).
page 135 note 5 28:219, 220 (1523).
page 136 note 1 21:274.
page 136 note 2 22:88, 85, 84 (1523).
page 135 note 1 54:141 (1530); 25:50 (1531).
page 135 note 2 53:333 (1525).
page 135 note 3 45: 115.
page 135 note 4 22:82, 83 (1523).
page 135 note 5 28:219, 220 (1523).
page 137 note 1 23:131. This passage is omitted in later editions.
page 137 note 2 12:283 (2d edition).
page 137 note 3 De Wette, ii., 547.
page 137 note 4 Op. Vor. Arg., v., 221.
page 138 note 1 Kōstlin, Martin Luther: sein Leben und seine Schriften, 5th Aufl., 1: 584 (1903).
page 138 note 2 De Wette, iii., 15 (1525).
page 138 note 3 23:1 ff. (Instructions to the Visitors, especially p. 9).
page 138 note 4 17:193 (1533).
page 138 note 5 21:240.
page 139 note 1 67:271.
page 139 note 2 67:274. See also 45:413.
page 139 note 3 See Hartwig's correction of Ward (whose book he highly commends, however) in his long review in Theol. Litteraturblatt, 1899, 111.
page 139 note 4 53:296 (1525); 55:i41–2 (1536).
page 139 note 5 Enders, iv., 356–7.
page 139 note 6 De Wette, ii., 563; vi., 54 (Nov. 17, 1524).
page 139 note 7 153:387 (1526).
page 140 note 1 De Wette, iii., 15 (1526); Erlangen ed., 53:324, 331, 337 (1525), 387 (1526). See Hartwig, 23–25.
page 140 note 2 Hist, of Dogma, Eng. tr., vii, 186.
page 141 note 1 Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopädie f. Prot. Theol. u. Kirche, 3 Aufl., Art. Toleranz, xix., 827 (1907). Mejer-Friedmann give no reference but I suppose they refer to the passage in the preface by Luther (Erl. Ausg., 23:9 [1528]) in which he says that those who set themselves obstinately against these Instructions, who without good ground want to be peculiar (sonderlich), who are wild heads, who out of mere evil cannot endure anything that is equal and common to all, whose hearts and lives are changeable and wayward,—these we must let go from us as the chaff from the threshing floor; for though Your Electoral Graceis not commanded to teach and govern spiritually, yet you are under obligation as a worldly ruler to see to it that no dissension, mobs, and uproars take place among your subjects, just as the emperor Constantine demanded from the bishops at Nicaea, as he would allow no dissension such as Arius had brought about, but held them to united teaching and faith.
page 141 note 2 Op, Var. Arg., v., 296.
page 142 note 1 Walch, iii, 2294 (St. Louis edition, iii., 1553) cf. Erl. Ausg., 23:261. In this part of the essay I derive much help from Kōhler, W. (University of Giessen, now of Zurich), Reformation und Ketzerprozess, Tūbingen and Leipzig, 1901, 8ff.Google Scholar
page 142 note 2 Walch, xv., 1678 (St. Louis edition, xv., 1414).
page 142 note 3 De Wette, ii., 359 (1523): “Thus far we do the work in quiet ways, but if they shall proceed thus [by force] we might also have recourse to the edict of the Caesar; not indeed to burn (as they) or bind, or drive any by force (as this is not done by Christians), but to defend the glory of the Word by words and Scriptures [or writings, scripturis], and to correct more widely the monsters [portenta] of the Papists.”
page 143 note 1 Walch, 16:353.
page 144 note 1 Enders, Briefwechsel Luthers, v, t 118. The reference here is to some Nūrnbergers who had denied everything except the existence of God, including the civil power, and who were now in prison (Feb. 4, 1525). See also Kohler, 19.
page 144 note 2 Enders, v., 117 (No. 882, Feb. 4, 1525).
page 145 note 1 Erl. ed., 39:250–1 (1530).
page 145 note 2 54:97 (Aug. 26, 1529).
page 146 note 1 39:255 (1530).
page 146 note 2 39:254.
page 146 note 3 43:313 (1532).
page 146 note 4 54:288–9 (probably April, 1532).
page 146 note 5 Enders, vi., 289 (June 14, 1528).
page 147 note 1 Corpus Ref., iv., 740 (1530).
page 147 note 2 See this paper in Walch, 20:21 82ff., and in Zeits. f. Hist. Theol., 1858 560–63.
page 148 note 1 De Wette, iii., 570.
page 148 note 2 See Kohler, 24–29. Luther subscribed the paper which made the authorities the protector of the first table of the law as well as the second (Corp. Ref., iii., 225). Kawerau explains (Theol. Lit.-ZeU., 1902,107–9) this latter attitude of Luther by the consideration that the Anabaptists were looked upon as underminers of all state order. But Luther's scythe cut a much wider swathe. He came to believe in the forcible suppression of heresy as such.
page 149 note 1 Lib. cit., 32–33.
page 149 note 2 Endeis, vx., 365 (No. 2135).
page 150 note 1 Enders, vi., 299 (July 14, 1528).
page 150 note 2 Erl. ed., 26:256 (1528).
page 150 note 3 Der Toleranzgedanke im Refortnationszettalter, Leipzig, 1908, 53 (Schr. d. Ver. f. Ref. Gesch., 96).Google Scholar
page 150 note 4 53:368; De Wette, iii., 89 (Feb. 9, 1526).
page 151 note 1 39:252 (1530).
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