Talk:Martin Luther

One of my better essays last year was on Martin Luther. I'll see if I can dig it up from somewhere. (P.S- Should we mention anti-semitism? He did write a book with a rather nasty title lets not forget) Denis Cavanagh 06:58, 28 January 2008 (CST)

go write ahead....I'm pretty much finished with this article. We do mention his antisemitism ( Jews were a rejected people suffering God's wrath for rejecting the true Messiah.) Richard Jensen 07:02, 28 January 2008 (CST)

Luther was the first to definitively break the unity of Roman Catholic Christendom. His Lutheran Church broke with the pope, but became subservient to the state.

Frankly I would at the very least rephrase both those sentences. On being first to be disruptive, what would one call for instance the Albigensians? Perhaps Luther was the first to do it, and succeed?

On the second sentence, that is anachronistic. Luther and his followers were certainly protected by princes, but state as we know it, didn't exist yet at the time, so it is somewhat out of place to mention it in an article about the person Luther. Perhaps it might be ok in an article about the longer spanning history of Lutheranism. -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen 08:47, 23 February 2008 (CST)