Martin Luther, a Sermon Suggested by the Four Hundredth Birthday of Martin Luther: Delivered in the Meeting-House of the First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, November 11th, 1883 (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Martin Luther, a Sermon Suggested by the Four Hundredth Birthday of Martin Luther: Delivered in the Meeting-House of the First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, November 11th, 1883 Glance, first, at the secular outlook. It was, in the first place, an age of radical political changes. Hitherto the European governments had been largely ecclesiastical in form and feudal in details. But now civic considerations were taking the place of churchly, and the old feudalism was being supplanted by towns or burgs, and by ...
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Excerpt from Martin Luther, a Sermon Suggested by the Four Hundredth Birthday of Martin Luther: Delivered in the Meeting-House of the First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, November 11th, 1883 Glance, first, at the secular outlook. It was, in the first place, an age of radical political changes. Hitherto the European governments had been largely ecclesiastical in form and feudal in details. But now civic considerations were taking the place of churchly, and the old feudalism was being supplanted by towns or burgs, and by vigorous monarchies, which tended to consolidate the different nations. The Third Estate, or the commonalty as repre sented in parliaments, was everywhere emerging, asserting its peerage with the lords spiritual or mitred clergy, and the lords temporal or the nobility. Again, it was an age of maritime discoveries, giving birth to the international spirit. The discovery of America in the year when Luther was nine years old, and the doubling of the Cape of Good Hope in the year he was fourteen, opened America, Africa, and Asia to Europe, turning over the future of history into the grasp of the commercial nations.' Again, it was an age of intense intellectual activity. The recovery of ancient manuscripts; the revived study of the Greek and Roman classics; the decline of Scholasticism with its narrowing subtleties; the emergence of Humanism with its broadening tendencies; the rise of the great universities; the cultivation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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