I don't have confidence in Eric Metaxas, but he recently published a book on Luther. In an interview, he said that her exit in a fish barrel is not true, so I'm unsure of this part of her life.
I'm sorry, but abandoning one's monastic vows to go off and get married is nothing short of breaking one's word to God. One of Protestantism's greatest sins, both in Germany and in England, was the destruction of monasticism and the fundamental devaluing of celibacy. Adult singles are viewed as second-class citizens in almost every single Protestant church to this day. Luther may not have been driven by lust, but it was his devaluing of continence that led to absolutely horrid behavior people like Mark Driscoll.
The church historian Phillip Schaff documents that some 10-15 million people were born within two hundred years after the reformation directly owing to the emptying of convents across Europe. I don’t follow your Driscoll example, surely the sins of one Protestant leader are not nearly as egregious as royal commission investigations into child sex abuse among Catholic priests worldwide, which is a direct correlate to enforced clerical celibacy. It was a well known fact, that the Church of the 16th century was extremely licentiousness, especially among the clerics. This was one of the reasons given for the sacking of Rome by Charles V in the late 1520s, it was divine retribution for the sins of the clerics at the time.
Monastic vows are wrong, so nothing wrong with abandoning them, unless you're someone who's anti-Reformation. The attempt to connect Luther and Driscoll is nonsense.
I don't have confidence in Eric Metaxas, but he recently published a book on Luther. In an interview, he said that her exit in a fish barrel is not true, so I'm unsure of this part of her life.
I'm sorry, but abandoning one's monastic vows to go off and get married is nothing short of breaking one's word to God. One of Protestantism's greatest sins, both in Germany and in England, was the destruction of monasticism and the fundamental devaluing of celibacy. Adult singles are viewed as second-class citizens in almost every single Protestant church to this day. Luther may not have been driven by lust, but it was his devaluing of continence that led to absolutely horrid behavior people like Mark Driscoll.
The church historian Phillip Schaff documents that some 10-15 million people were born within two hundred years after the reformation directly owing to the emptying of convents across Europe. I don’t follow your Driscoll example, surely the sins of one Protestant leader are not nearly as egregious as royal commission investigations into child sex abuse among Catholic priests worldwide, which is a direct correlate to enforced clerical celibacy. It was a well known fact, that the Church of the 16th century was extremely licentiousness, especially among the clerics. This was one of the reasons given for the sacking of Rome by Charles V in the late 1520s, it was divine retribution for the sins of the clerics at the time.
Monastic vows are wrong, so nothing wrong with abandoning them, unless you're someone who's anti-Reformation. The attempt to connect Luther and Driscoll is nonsense.
Someone get Dr. Trueman a quite fidget spinner and take his pen away CLICK CLICK CLICK