Tag: Martin Luther
What the German Evangelical Church Congress brings for Nuremberg – Bavaria
Günther Beckstein has retained the childish giggle that one hears when speaking to him about the 1979 German Evangelical Church Congress. It took place in Nuremberg, as did the 38th…
What the German Church Congress brings for Nuremberg – Bavaria
Günther Beckstein has retained the childish giggle that one hears when speaking to him about the 1979 German Evangelical Church Congress. It took place in Nuremberg, as did the 38th…
The theologian Martin Schloemann has died. An obituary. – Culture
After the Second World War, overt and underlying tensions riddled German Protestantism. The church struggle of the early Nazi era continued to have an effect. The theologian Martin Schloemann, like…
Who did the famous “Luther complaint?” – Culture
His heart is heavy, his idol trapped, possibly already dead. “And is he still alive or have you murdered someone that I don’t know,” complained Albrecht Dürer in his diary…
500 years ago Luther translated the Bible into German. A laudatory opinion
Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther started translating the New Testament from Greek into German at the Wartburg. On December 18, 1521, the reformer reported this project to two correspondents.…
Josquin Desprez: Der geniale Renaissancekomponist – Kultur
Er gehört zu den geheimen Genies. Zu jenen Großmeistern, die einst von ihren Zeitgenossen vergöttert wurden und heute nur wenigen bekannt sind. Es geht um den Renaissance-Komponisten Josquin Desprez, damals…