Here is the series with brief titles for each lecture: 01 - Intro to course; why “Luther-centric” 02 - Background to Luther: early life and monastery 03 - Medieval church context leading to 95 Theses (1517) 04 - 95 Theses aftermath; Heidelberg Disputation (1518) 05 - [Q&A - Scholasticism; Cross/Glory] + Towards Augsburg 06 - Leipzig Disputation (1519) + 1520 Theological construction 07 - The Three 1520 Treatises > Babylonian Captivity of the Church; Sacraments 08 - The Three 1520 Treatises > Freedom of the Christian Man; Ethics 09 - The Three 1520 Treatises > Address to the German Nobility 10 - Toward the Diet of Worms (1521) 11 - Diet of Worms; Aftermath; Wartburg and Return to Wittenberg (1522) 12 - On Secular Authority (1523) 13 - 1525! Peasant War 14 - Bondage of the Will (1) Perspicuity 15 - Bondage of the Will (2) Hidden God; + vs. Zwingli 16 - 1528, Lord's Supper debate (Zwingli) 17 - 1529, Luther, Zwingli (Marburg) (// Calvin) 18 - Luther and the Jews 19 - Wrap-up Q&A on whole course
Just watched this 5 years after the lecture was delivered, after coming across a snippet on INSTAGRAM. Want to listen to all the lectures. Thank you for posting this.
Check out Carl's classes on the midevil church as well through Westminster podcasts. Carl has a pretty good ecumenical view of history that brings out the good and bad of all points of christian history.
To me, Luther seems like a simple man performing simple works. Not quite a man of the enlightenment, not quite a man of new and unique devotions, but just a man dedicated to the ideas placed in front of him by wiser and more thoughtful men.
In a way that’s what all true Christians are..our faith comes from the Holy scriptures as illuminated by The Holy Spirit..we don’t come up with new or novel ideas..it’s all from the mind of God who is infinitely wiser than all men
At 21:30 he makes a big misstep when he claims in 1495 you could not have conceptualized the church being divided. This is actually quite untrue. As early as the 6th century, you had the conflict between the Celtic and Roman traditions, the split between the East and West in 1054, and at the height of the great Western Schism (1378-1417) Latin Christianity was divided between three Popes.
For someone living in the middle of Western Europe there is a massive difference between the distant Eastern Church and having other denominations in the next territory over nevermind several on one street like we have today.
Listened to a lot of Dr. Trueman's lectures in my life. And I think, for all his carping about what proper English diction sounds like, his penchant for pronouncing it 'think' ('everythink', 'somethink', 'anythink') is tragically under commented upon. I'm just trynna do my part. (See 12:16 for a strong example lolol)
Surely you mean you're *tryink* to do your part! ;) Actually, this is a fairly typical feature in south(east) England dialect, and not an idiosyncratic quirk of the good Dr Trueman.
so how much reform did he do....how much did he neglect.....and what are the consequences...of this....also is the so called reformation Church, different from the New Testament Church....in other words, how much of the reformation Church is just culture....
Seems like Theology ology ology to me, and looks like Nothing to do with the Facts for the Faith. This Guy is lost in books and the review of reviews of books, How does this equip the mind of a pastor to connect real people with the real God? If one adopts this as a mindset it could only alienate the common person from closeness with their mentors and more importantly, GOD. It would only engenders elevation, not humility. (You would have to be as informed as me to really understand that.... so all adopt their expert view). He delights rather it seems in the elevation of his mind (a contagious notion) by boldly violating without any care of explanation sensibilities, demanding deference to his mind and not to reason.
Don't let your mind be limited to your selfish thoughts. Without understanding of context in History, the important debates and characters and their defense of faith that went on, you would be lost in our own day fighting the same fight that was debated and won over!
