Emily, I see you're on right now and responding. Sorry, but I've been editing as I go a bit, so I added to a couple of things. I always thnk of things to add after I've submitted my posts.
Emily, I see you're on right now and responding. Sorry, but I've been editing as I go a bit, so I added to a couple of things. I always thnk of things to add after I've submitted my posts.
But what weapons can you use to dispossess someone who will not accept anything except Holy Scripture interpreted according to his own rules?...Where Lutheranism reigns, learning dies. They seek only two things: good pay and a wife. The gospel offers them the rest — that is, the power of living as they please.
I understand now how Arius and Tertullian and Wickliff were driven into schism by malicious clergy and wicked monks.
(Erasmus regarding Luther and the church, 1527, 1529)