Sunday, July 23, 2017

Recent Activity and The 95 Theses

       It's been quite a few months since my last post, but 2017 has been an exceptionally busy year. The school I teach at has moved to a much larger campus, increasing our number of students and my duties as well. While I come on here pretty frequently and stare at my blog, I simply haven't had anything notable to add. Rather, I've been in an intense 'learning mode' this year. With October marking the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, I decided I needed to re-visit the writings of the Reformers (and not just read 'about' them as I have been in the past). I've made my way through many of the writings of Erasmus, More, Luther, Tyndale, and am soon moving on to Calvin. I hope to make some posts about Reformation writings in the near future, but for now I am simply ingesting all I can. 
       On a related note, here's a great post from Luther in Oxford on the three oldest prints of Martin Luther's 95 Theses. With the originals being lost to time, these sheets are probably the closest we'll ever get what Luther nailed to the church door in Wittenberg (if he ever actually did that!). 
https://lutherinoxford.wordpress.com/2016/05/20/the-three-oldest-prints-of-martin-luthers-ninety-five-theses/