Die etiek van Luther

Hendrikje van Andel, bristlecone pines, and why we die.

At the moment of writing this editorial (September 2004), the oldest living person in the world is Hendrikje van Andel. She celebrated her 114th birthday on June 29 of this year, and lives in an old people’s home in Hoogeveen, the Netherlands. When interviewed by the world press she cheerfully gave away her secret: a herring and a glass of orange juice a day. While survival beyond the age of 10...

Health care in the Bible and the Talmud.

Daar is ’n rykdom van kosbare materiaal ten opsigte van mediese kennis in die Bybel en die Talmud te vind. Melding van ’n groot aantal siektes word gemaak, asook die diagnosering, behandeling en voorkoms daarvan. Dikwels word melding ook gemaak van onderwerpe soos etiek vir die geneesheer, anatomie enfisiologie, forensiese geneeskunde, geestelike ongesteldhede en veral higiëniese maatreëls. Dit...

Bad for Business: Luther Against the Papacy

This paper analyzes Martin Luther’s criticism of increasingly corrupt church practices, including, the papacy’s granting of indulgences, the promotion of pilgrimage, the preservation and exploitation of relics, the cult of saints, and the belief in saintly intercession. I will examine how Luther’s critiques of these practices were expressed in the religious propaganda that circulated during thi...

Current Issues and Trends in Luther Studies

Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born into the closed society of segregated Georgia, a grandson of sharecroppers not far removed from America's original sin of slavery. This year, he is being honored a day before Barack Obama will place his hand on Abraham Lincoln's Bible and take the oath of office as the nation's first black president. "The arc of history is long," King reminded us, "but ...