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As a Lutheran, my advice would be to never trust a historical account that claims Luther nailed his 95 thesis to a church door - there's no historical record of
by benjohnson 11y ago
As a Lutheran, my advice would be to never trust a historical account that claims Luther nailed his 95 thesis to a church door - there's no historical record of him doing that.
As such, I would be very cautious in trusting the research of any author that made a claim they may be prone to not using first sources.
As an aside, Luther did something much more dangerous than nailing paper to a church door: He sent the thesis to his Archbishop.
- winstonewert 11y agoTo be fair, its not clear from the article that the book itself says that he nailed the thesis to the door.
- jsprogrammer 11y agoDidn't Luther make claims based on secondary/tertiary/n-ary sources?
- benjohnson 11y agoIt really depends on what body of Luther's output you're referencing - Luther as a rather acerbic German man swore and cussed a lot and used all sort of sources for political arguments. Luther in his output that he would have felt as proclaiming the Gospel, primarily used scripture and early church fathers as the norm. In the Christian tradition, scripture is God-breathed and is a primary source (along with tradition that has been handed down.)