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In Nazi Germany, Gottgläubig (literally: "believing in God")[1][2] was a Nazi religious term for a form of non-denominationalism practised by those German citizens who had officially left Christian churches but professed faith in some higher power or divine creator.[1] Such people were called Gottgläubige ("believers in God"), and the term for the overall movement was Gottgläubigkeit ("belief in God"); the term denotes someone who still believes in a God, although without having any institutional religious affiliation.[1] These National Socialists were not favourable towards religious institutions of their time, nor did they tolerate atheism of any type within their ranks.[2][3] The 1943 Philosophical Dictionary defined Gottgläubig as: "official designation for those who profess a specific kind of piety and morality, without being bound to a church denomination, whilst however also rejecting irreligion and godlessness."[4] In the 1939 census, 3.5% of the German population identified as Gottgläubig.[2]
Luther taught that salvation and, consequently, eternal life are not earned by good deeds; rather, they are received only as the free gift of God's grace through the believer's faith in Jesus Christ, the redeemer from sin. His theology challenged the authority and office of the pope by teaching that the Bible is the only source of divinely revealed knowledge,[4] and opposed sacerdotalism by considering all baptized Christians to be a holy priesthood.[5] Those who identify with these, and all of Luther's wider teachings, are called Lutherans, though Luther insisted on Christian or Evangelic (German: evangelisch) as the only acceptable names for individuals who professed Christ. His translation of the Bible into the German vernacular (instead of Latin) made it more accessible to the laity, an event that had a tremendous impact on both the church and German culture. It fostered the development of a standard version of the German language, added several principles to the art of translation,[6] and influenced the writing of an English translation, the Tyndale Bible.[7] His hymns influenced the development of singing in Protestant churches.[8] His marriage to Katharina von Bora, a former nun, set a model for the practice of clerical marriage, allowing Protestant clergy to marry.[9]
Philosophy proved to be unsatisfying, offering assurance about the use of reason but none about loving God, which to Luther was more important. Reason could not lead men to God, he felt, and he thereafter developed a love-hate relationship with Aristotle over the latter's emphasis on reason.[26] For Luther, reason could be used to question men and institutions, but not God. Human beings could learn about God only through divine revelation, he believed, and Scripture therefore became increasingly important to him.[26]
On 2 July 1505, while Luther was returning to university on horseback after a trip home, a lightning bolt struck near him during a thunderstorm. Later telling his father he was terrified of death and divine judgment, he cried out, "Help! Saint Anna, I will become a monk!"[27][28] He came to view his cry for help as a vow he could never break. He left university, sold his books, and entered St. Augustine's Monastery in Erfurt on 17 July 1505.[29] One friend blamed the decision on Luther's sadness over the deaths of two friends. Luther himself seemed saddened by the move. Those who attended a farewell supper walked him to the door of the Black Cloister. "This day you see me, and then, not ever again," he said.[26] His father was furious over what he saw as a waste of Luther's education.[30]
The effect of Luther's intervention was immediate. After the sixth sermon, the Wittenberg jurist Jerome Schurf wrote to the elector: "Oh, what joy has Dr. Martin's return spread among us! His words, through divine mercy, are bringing back every day misguided people into the way of the truth."[96]
Luther's Small Catechism proved especially effective in helping parents teach their children; likewise the Large Catechism was effective for pastors.[143] Using the German vernacular, they expressed the Apostles' Creed in simpler, more personal, Trinitarian language. He rewrote each article of the Creed to express the character of the Father, the Son, or the Holy Spirit. Luther's goal was to enable the catechumens to see themselves as a personal object of the work of the three persons of the Trinity, each of which works in the catechumen's life.[144] That is, Luther depicts the Trinity not as a doctrine to be learned, but as persons to be known. The Father creates, the Son redeems, and the Spirit sanctifies, a divine unity with separate personalities. Salvation originates with the Father and draws the believer to the Father. Luther's treatment of the Apostles' Creed must be understood in the context of the Decalogue (the Ten Commandments) and The Lord's Prayer, which are also part of the Lutheran catechetical teaching.[144]
Luther wrote negatively about the Jews throughout his career.[221] Though Luther rarely encountered Jews during his life, his attitudes reflected a theological and cultural tradition which saw Jews as a rejected people guilty of the murder of Christ, and he lived in a locality which had expelled Jews roughly 90 years earlier.[222] He considered the Jews blasphemers and liars because they rejected the divinity of Jesus.[223] In 1523, Luther advised kindness toward the Jews in That Jesus Christ was Born a Jew and also aimed to convert them to Christianity.[224] When his efforts at conversion failed, he grew increasingly bitter toward them.[225]
Since the 17th century and during the Age of Enlightenment, especially in 18th-century England, France, and North America,[15] various Western philosophers and theologians formulated a critical rejection of the several religious texts belonging to the many organized religions, and began to appeal only to truths that they felt could be established by reason as the exclusive source of divine knowledge.[17] Such philosophers and theologians were called "Deists", and the philosophical/theological position they advocated is called "Deism".[18]
The most natural position for Deists was to reject all forms of supernaturalism, including the miracle stories in the Bible. The problem was that the rejection of miracles also seemed to entail the rejection of divine providence (that is, God taking a hand in human affairs), something that many Deists were inclined to accept.[48] Those who believed in a watch-maker God rejected the possibility of miracles and divine providence. They believed that God, after establishing natural laws and setting the cosmos in motion, stepped away. He didn't need to keep tinkering with his creation, and the suggestion that he did was insulting.[49] Others, however, firmly believed in divine providence, and so, were reluctantly forced to accept at least the possibility of miracles. God was, after all, all-powerful and could do whatever he wanted including temporarily suspending his own natural laws.
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We are grateful for the gospel of Jesus Christ which has touched for everlasting good the lives of all here assembled. We thank Thee that we are partakers of Thy divine truth, restored to earth in this Dispensation of the Fulness of Times. We thank Thee for the Prophet Joseph Smith and for all who have succeeded him, including our present prophet and seer. We thank Thee for the great Nephite record, the Book of Mormon, which has come as a voice from the dust to bear witness of the divinity of Thy Son.
Wilt Thou accept it as the offering of Thy faithful sons and daughters. Wilt Thou hallow it by the presence of Thy Holy Spirit. Wilt Thou sanctify it for the divine purposes for which it has been erected. Wilt Thou preserve it from defilement and destruction.
Bless the husbands and the wives, the parents and the children among Thy people that they may gather to this Thy holy house and be sealed as families for all eternity by the power and authority which Thou hast given to Thy chosen servants. Wilt Thou grant a divine endowment to those who here enter into covenants with Thee. May Thy saints gather here to serve in behalf of their forebears so that those of the many generations who have gone before may partake of these priceless blessings.
imagined God as ruler, legislator, king, merciful, just, etc., despitethe fact that all the latter are merely attributes of human nature andfar removed from the divine nature. (Spinoza [1677] 2007: 63)
Lilla's The Stillborn God is a sober book, drawn from lectures delivered at Oxford University in 2003, which chart different solutions to what Lilla calls the problem of "political theology." While Lilla provides no clear definition, this seems to mean the naive, and unavoidable, impulse to see divine design in the universe, and to translate that impulse of divine instantiation into a first principle of politics. Beginning from this hypothesized impulse, Lilla recounts the forking pathway of Christian theological approaches to political authority. Christian doctrine, Lilla explains, threw up many, many solutions. Out of that confusion of solutions came a division of Europe into political factions that each claimed divine sanction based on their own readings of the doctrine. This compound of politics and religion in turn triggered decades of civil and interstate strife underwritten by claims to divine authority
By contrast, Taylor is interested in showing how secularity -- not believing in a divinely animated world -- even becomes a possibility. In academic philosophy circles, Taylor is feted as a parent of modern communitarian theory in books such as Sources of the Self: The Making of Modern Identity and a much noted lecture "The Malaise of Modernity" -- i.e., the critique of liberalism for its failure to recognize how rooted identity and choice must be in social context. In A Secular Age, he starts from the observation that five hundred years ago in the European context, to lack a religious identity was simply infeasible. How, Taylor asks, did secularity even become an option?
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