............325 THE FUTURE ESTATE OF THE JEWS, AS IT IS ORDINARILY FOUND SET FORTH IN THE CHRISTIAN DOCTORS............................................... ...ness and peace harmonized, and goodness reigning universally. Fye, oh, fye upon it! ye Christians have fathered upon the scriptures the optimism of ... ... bring in all nations to the Church, and bind the whole world in one great community of Christians, acknowledging the Son of God, as the Lord of all... ...spectus of that which we has in contemplation, and to inform the church who this Hebrew-Christian or converted Jew, Juan Josafat Ben-Ezra actually wa... ... mother; and confederate all nations against the Lord and his anointed, persecuting the Christian church, circumventing the conversion of the Jews wi... ...d advert to certain f athers and doctors, as Jerome, Augustine, Gregory, and to all the theologians since their day, who treat it with aversion, and ... ...inst heresies. So that the opinion has against it only the authority of the fathers and theologians from the end of the fifth century onward. Great a... ...r the common judgment of the Expositors, and to a certain extent also, from that of the Theologians. This precise and formal declaration, which I mak... ...cases, but in certain cases, and with certain precautions and limitations taught by the theologians. The following is a general proposition in which ...

...IV...305 THE END OF ANTICHRIST...305 PHENOMENON V....325 THE JEWS...325 THE FUTURE ESTATE OF THE JEWS, AS IT IS ORDINARILY FOUND SET FORTH IN THE CHRISTIAN DOCTORS...328 ARTICLE I....333 ARTICLE II.....350 ARTICLE III....357 ARTICLE IV....377 CONSULTING INDEX OF VOLUME I....383...

...ive assault upon the total position of the Romans. In An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility 1 Luther demolished the three walls behind which Rom... ...could he set forth, in language of almost lyrical rapture, The Freedom of a Christian. 2 Luther was thinking of such a treatise long before it was ... ...into captivity under the tyranny of the Babylonian Empire, so in Europe the Christians have been carried away from the Scriptures and made subject to... ...is a theologieal treatise and was not intended for the rank and file of the Christian congregation. In this respect the treatise stands in contrast ... ...s, all of which were written in German and were intended for the individual Christian, whether layman or theologian. All in all, the Prelude was a d... ...ugh which elegy advanced to the priesthood. Some then- contemporary Catholic theologians (e.g., Gajetan and Durandus) doubted whether the Sacrament of... ...efers to Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), a Dominican, greatest of the scholastic theologians, still regarded as the foremost doctrinal authority in the R... ...ruly spiritual eating and drinking. Here you may see what great things our theologians of the Sentences 90 have produced in this matter. In the fi... ...rms, derived from the philosophy of Aristotle, were introduced by scholastic theologians of the thirteenth century into their explanations of the sac...

...ty has paradoxically been both encouraged and very much compromised by the Christian religion. 26 If humanity is partially (as the Catholics s... ...n as being toxic, and that as a strategy it must be abandoned. Can the Christian religion transcend itself and give people back their truth and ... ...he idea of God that has been passed down to us by the philosophers and the theologians, but it is not impossible. Buddhists have no God and yet they... ...ception of the World * THE RELIGIOUS CONCEPTION OF THE WORLD The pre-Christian religions generally follow this basic scheme: In the beginnin... ...s also born and with it the fear of divine judgment is consolidated. The Christian religion adopts the basic scheme of the Jewish religion and it t... ...em of evil and pain If a God exists, the God of the philosophers and the theologians who created the universe and the presence of both physical an... ...et’s try to put the artist in the place of the God of the philosophers and theologians, and we will find that an artist creates everything out of not... ... the same time he is nonetheless present in the time of this universe. The theologians say that the contingent being, the universe, could not remain ... .... This is very different from what the religions affirm and especially the Christian religion, which states that humanity’s fundamental problem lies...

...F MESSIAH IN GLORY AND MAJESTY. PART II. (CONTINUED) PHENOMENON VI. THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. THE two capital points which we now proceed to e... ...TIAN CHURCH. THE two capital points which we now proceed to examine, viz. the Christian church, and the captivity of Babylon, do not deserve so mu... ...rn to Jerusalem; the second, which supplies what the other cannot reach, is the Christian church. Let us begin with this, which is the more laborious... ..., or clear idea, of all which is signified or comprehended under this name, The Christian Church: that is to say, what is certain and of divine fait... ...hould terminate all the lines which proceed from the circumference of the whole Christian world; and those which will not terminate in this centre, ... ...the Old and New Testament, are not found in the sacred interpreters, nor in the theologians, nor in the ancient fathers of the church: therefore the... ...ew words, the whole manner of the doctors’ discoursing, whether interpreters or theologians, upon the point whereof we treat. So that, according to ... ... to the lowest of his kingdom, who shall certainly be the most numerous? Do not theologians admit such a hierarchy, and orders of ranks, even among ... ...is, Christophilus, is all your argument: and I do not wonder at it; because, as theologians acknowledge no other Christian church than the present, n...

... Of Buddhism The Concept Of The Buddha Buddhist Yoga Zen Buddhism And Jung Christianity 59 Origins How Much Does Historical Truth Matter? Centrality O... ...59 Origins How Much Does Historical Truth Matter? Centrality Of Beliefs In Christianity Christian Belief Before The Nicaean Council The Centrality Of ... ... majority of Westerners continue to list themselves on the census forms as Christian or Jewish, but for many people these terms have come to lose near... ...o be as objective as possible. As a child I was reared in a fundamentalist Christian family which had little by way of formal affiliation with any par... ...nday, still hoping to fill the hunger inside. Eventually I had tried every Christian church available. The conservative Protestant churches (such as B... ... speaking of the Buddha as the Ultimate. 35 At the same time, some Western theologians come more than perilously close to speaking of God as a process... ... into hell” between his execution and return to life. Many early Christian theologians held that this means he preached to, and converted, all who wer... ...he Bible is a true record. Even so, it is worth noting that many Christian theologians are not greatly concerned whether the accounts are true or not.... ...gh I do not wish to follow up on the point quite yet, some major Christian theologians have held that no historical truth in the story of Je- sus is r...

...re as many religious creeds as there are adherents. It is true that thevast majority of Westerners continue to list themselves on the census forms as Christian or Jewish, but for many...

...ng the wisdom that Professor Falvey concludes is the essence of all sustainability. By bringing sustainability, agriculture, global issues, Buddhism, Christianity and a host of other factors into play, we see that our motivations belie our rhetoric – in environmental actions through to trade and aid. This open-spirited book contains a wealth of analysis and alternative log...

...ortality: Sustaining Ourselves? Chapter 3 31 Agricultural Theology: Why we are Fascinated with Sustainability Chapter 4 47 Literal and Historical Christianity and Agriculture: Our Manipulations and Our Undoing Chapter 5 57 Some Influencers of the Church: Prophets and Sustainable Agriculture Chapter 6 71 From Luther to Jung: Broadening the Insights Chapter 7 82 We...

...e our needs for and, our views of, an afterlife. The same influences seem to affect our concepts of being— and our reliance on faith and hope. Theolo... ...is highly likely that you would be a Muslim.‖ —―I‘d have to agree with you. But you know there are many Muslims who have converted to Christ... ...eir values. And yet we call ourselves homo sapiens! ―As I‘m sure Wanda mentioned, we can tell what we value by how we act. The strongly Christ... ...alues and righteousness then is caught hustling young boys who work for him, or one who is caught in corrupt dealings, is not living the ideal Christ... ...es and liberal Muslims as his reasons for killing innocents. Power driven Catholics needed the saving of Jerusalem and the beliefs of the anti-Christ... ... is strange that so often in the Crusades it was the infidels who showed true compassion. They were often able to turn the other cheek to the Christ... ..., or searches for meaning, it is a sign of being psychologically healthy and happy. One might look at the artists and poets, philosophers and theolo... ...evel of mind. Jung was an early associate of Freud. He was a medical doctor, one of many in his family. His family also nurtured a great many theolo...

...ELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 CONCEPTS OF GOD 45 3 WHAT IS GOD LIKE? 46 THEISM 49 PROOFS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD 53 IS AMERICA A CHRISTIAN NATION? 57 WHO GETS TO GO TO HEAVEN? 63 DEISM 65 PANTHEISM AND PANENTHEISM 67 AGNOSTICISM 68 ATHEISM 71 SATANISM 96 AN IDEA OF A BETTER SOCIETY AS A BASIC ASSUMPTION 97 THE SOURCE OF POWER IN A SOCIETY 104 FUNDAMENT...

............................................................ 60 IS AMERICA A CHRISTIAN NATION? ............................................................ ...father, should he have been honored as the commandment requires? Are most Christians dishonoring the code by keeping Sunday rather than Saturday, th... ... through life accepting what the rest of our society believes. If it is a Christian society we believe in the New Testament. If it is a Muslim socie... ...to face their beliefs by thinking deeply about them. ―Few Jews, Christians, Hindus or Muslims change their religions. Few democrats want a ... ... ―Is this the reason that President George W. Bush, as an evangelical Christian, didn‘t believe in evolution or in global warming? Was it a lack... ...nches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.‘ ―Christian theologians, like Thomas Aquinas, approved of the inquisitional methods. ‗... ...e God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Of course Christian theologians, in their infinite wisdom, say that there are three divine per... ...f the world idea, God or matter. Is there a God. ―Naturally some theologians and philosophers have attempted to prove that a Supernatural e... ... ―To believe in a supernatural that is so infinite that the greatest theologians can‘t make it intelligible is a huge stumbling block for a thi...

...surgent ‗A‘ when insurgent ‗B‘ may win the guerrilla war. Why support the Christian side when the Muslim fighters may have the more ethical position.... ...ern culture since at least the days of the Greeks and Romans. The Jewish, Christian and Muslim religions may not have reduced the activity, but cert... ...that all divisions and diversions fit into the whole. It seems that your Christian and Islamic faiths have had a strong emphasis on increasing thei... ...roblems in that regard. During the last twenty years there have been anti-Christian outbursts in east India where churches and Christian homes have ... ... The Koran and its commentators speak of good and bad jinns. The Jews and Christians have their witches. 45 We can point to Deuteronomy 18:10 ‗T... ...ou may have heard of Shankara, he was the greatest of the philosophers or theologians of Juana. He taught us to use the intellect to open the door t...

...te of Israel is not exclusionary. There are a million Israelis who are Arabs, both Christians and Muslims. It is true, though, that Jews have a sp... ... in the Old Testament - but man-eating goes virtually unmentioned. The Eucharist in Christianity - when the believers consume the actual body and bl... ...nial regime on its former colonies. Spearheaded by the United States, the white and Christian nations of the West embarked with missionary zeal on a... ...munity and violates the property rights of God, the imputed owner of one's spirit. Christianity regards the immortal soul as a gift and, in Jewish ... ...munity and violates the property rights of God, the imputed owner of one's spirit. Christianity regards the immortal soul as a gift and, in Jewish ... ...ellectual vision" which leads to the "essence of things". Earlier philosophers and theologians labeled the methodical application of intuitions - t... ... and America. The study of the human mind, hitherto a preserve of philosophers and theologians, became a legitimate subject of scientific (some wou... ...affair. Few of us would tend to believe in contradictions and falsehoods. Catholic theologians talk about explicit belief (in something which is kn... ... such quests and is inferior to the tools developed over centuries by philosophers, theologians, and mystics. Moreover, scientists often confuse la...

...te of Israel is not exclusionary. There are a million Israelis who are Arabs, both Christians and Muslims. It is true, though, that Jews have a sp... ... in the Old Testament - but man-eating goes virtually unmentioned. The Eucharist in Christianity - when the believers consume the actual body and bl... ...nial regime on its former colonies. Spearheaded by the United States, the white and Christian nations of the West embarked with missionary zeal on a... ...munity and violates the property rights of God, the imputed owner of one's spirit. Christianity regards the immortal soul as a gift and, in Jewish ... ...munity and violates the property rights of God, the imputed owner of one's spirit. Christianity regards the immortal soul as a gift and, in Jewish ... ...ellectual vision" which leads to the "essence of things". Earlier philosophers and theologians labeled the methodical application of intuitions - t... ... and America. The study of the human mind, hitherto a preserve of philosophers and theologians, became a legitimate subject of scientific (some wou... ...affair. Few of us would tend to believe in contradictions and falsehoods. Catholic theologians talk about explicit belief (in something which is kn... ... such quests and is inferior to the tools developed over centuries by philosophers, theologians, and mystics. Moreover, scientists often confuse la...

...e, wisdom is not an end unto itself, as perfection instead is for Jews and Christians, or Illumination is for the Buddhists. Its purpose is to devel... ... whole text of the Odyssey was not yet available in the West. In addition, Christian mythology also deeply influenced Dante, which 36 was based on... ...power has nothing to do with the god of the philosophers or the god of the theologians. Homer calls this higher power Zeus. I have translated this w... ... another evolutionary phase could emerge from our Europe that is mostly de-Christianized, but is still full of infinite potential:, a phase that inv... ...contact with our animalistic instincts and learn to transform them. The Christian ascetics do not agree with this theory but I prefer Indian wisd... ...ions or on the gods. This type of path is in complete contrast with the Christian perfectionistic ideal that, in my opinion, is what today corrod...

...isingly, many of the first spiritualists were ministers and other functionaries of Christian Churches. Three historic developments contributed to t... ...affair. Few of us would tend to believe in contradictions and falsehoods. Catholic theologians talk about explicit belief (in something which is kn... ... such quests and is inferior to the tools developed over centuries by philosophers, theologians, and mystics. Moreover, scientists often confuse ... ...and Actuality", 1970) and Sobel ("Logic and Theism", 2004) noted, philosophers and theologians who argued in favor of God's existence have traditio... ...ips between objects and persons, or persons and persons. Some religions (Hinduism, Christian Science) shrug it off as an illusion, the outcome of o... ...r growth, learning, and maturation. It is a God not of indifference (as proposed by theologians and philosophers from Lactantius to Paul Draper), bu... ...ith God and "soul-making" (a belief shared by the Mu'tazili school of Islam and by theologians from Irenaeus of Lyons and St. Basil to John Hick). ...

...g so modest as paper despite its strength and durability. Similarly, some Christians called it an infidel technology and slowed the flow of paper in... ...arriers between Europe and Asia that the religious feud between Islam and Christianity had erected. ―The effect in diffusing and broadening men‘s... ... system encountered considerable skepticism in Europe. It mattered not to Christians that their Bible told of creation from the void. Many still loo... ...hanced the concepts of more worldly hard work and utilitarian values. Theologians and scholars, many of them monks, became immersed in a new cult...

...g so modest as paper despite its strength and durability. Similarly, some Christians called it an infidel technology and slowed the flow of paper in... ...arriers between Europe and Asia that the religious feud between Islam and Christianity had erected. ―The effect in diffusing and broadening men‘s i... ... system encountered considerable skepticism in Europe. It mattered not to Christians that their Bible told of creation from the void. Many still loo... ...enhanced the concepts of more worldly hard work and utilitarian values. Theologians and scholars, many of them monks, became immersed in a new cult...

...tipoints. Inside the atom protons+electrons+neutrons co\habit. Theologians have defined the trinitarism as: Father, Son, and Holly Spirit.... ...ion. There are neither a definite end nor an ultimate purpose. The theologians ignore the happening's role, and so the vitalists. Resear... ... scholasticism, urged to "join faith to reason" in order to reconcile the Christian judgement with the rational judgement. For example <mind> a...

...ell with the Holy Scriptures and the Apocrypha as well as with millennia-old Judeo-Christian traditions of martyrdom and sacrifice. Her actions we... ... and America. The study of the human mind, hitherto a preserve of philosophers and theologians, became a legitimate subject of scientific (some wou...

...e is neither a definite end nor an ultimate purpose. (I don’t agree.) The theologians ignore the happening's role, and so do the vitalists. Accord... ...ot a theist (an awakened scientist? I don’t know what I am.). FS: I am Christian, Buddhist, and Muslim, all at once, yet none. FL: I don’t know...

...lvania State University Electronic Classics Series Publication Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec... ...University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Martin Luther Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther LETTER OF MARTIN LUTHER TO POPE LEO X Am... ...d your conspicuous innocence against Silvester, who tried to 4 Concerning Christian Liberty stain it. Indeed, the published opinion of so many great ... ... a better age, have been made pontiff in this. For the Roman 6 Concerning Christian Liberty Court is not worthy of you and those like you, but of Sat... ...omote, not so much the primacy of Peter, as his own pre-eminence among the theologians of this age; for he thought it would contribute in no slight de... ...mpious, and soul-destroying traditions of our pontiffs and opinions of our theologians. An infinite number of souls have been drawn down to hell by th...

...ity is an equal opportunity university. The Smalcald Articles Articles of Christian Doctrine which were to have been pre sented on our part to the C... ...good faith, without lying and cheating, to hold a truly free [legitimate] Christian Council (as, indeed, he would be in duty bound to do), they be p... ...in Luther 3 But though the Romish court is so dreadfully afraid of a free Christian Council, and shuns the light so shamefully, that it has [entirel... ...! eternally. But to return to the subject. I verily desire to see a truly Christian Council [assembled some time], in order that many matters and pe... ... not only among the insane [rude] common people, but also among all pious, Christian, reasonable, God fearing hearts; and that the more, when they wo... ...ing sins, and works so as to render man truly pure and holy. The Pope, the theologians, the jurists, and every other man know nothing of this [from th...