The author describes his paper as follows: “(Luther) also said of himself - and this very self-consciously in words that are part of the partial autobiography he wrote for the preface to his Latin works of 1545 - that “I ...

In this lecture it must be noted that by the term “humanist,” Kittelson is not talking about the modern use of the term. Instead, Kittelson will examine what this word meant in the early 16th Century and explain how this ...

In this paper Kittelson takes a close look at the high view of learning of Luther, who thought that “Learning, wisdom, and writers must rule the world… If God out of his wrath would take away from the world all the learned, ...