Luther and the Radicales

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

Clarence Luther Herrick on the Organization of the Motor Cortex

INTRODUCTION In 1889-90 the young energetic chairman of the Biology Department at the University of Cincinnati was facing a dilemma. He was already recognized nationally for his research in geology (about 24 papers in this area since 1877) and had, in 1885, established a scientific journal that was rapidly gaining an international reputation. However, his new line of scientific endeavor, that b...

Higher Rank Class Groups by Luther Claborn and Robert Fossum

Let A be a noetherian ring which is locally Macaulay. For each integer i ^ O , groups d(A) and Wi(A) are denned, each sequence of groups generalizing to higher dimensions the usual class group of an integrally closed noetherian domain. d(A) is called the ith class group of A, and Wi(A) is called the ith homologuai class group of A. The main purpose of this note is to show that both sequences of...

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 ...