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Hello!
Because I am not pagan but Lutheran I’m not celebrating Halloween but
Reformation Day. That’s the day when we commemorate the start of the so called
Reformation that began with Dr. Martin Luther nailing 95 theses against the
practice of indulgence to the door of the Schlosskirche in Wittenberg on October
31th anno 1517. (http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Jojo/Luther/luther1.jpg)
After he did that he got some trouble with the Pope in Rome for His Holiness
didn’t like too much what Luther sermonised against some essential usages to
encash money for the church. So Luther was labeled “heretic” and excommunicated
unless he recanted his scripts. Also the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire,
Charles V., catholic himself of course and in his capacity as Roman Emperor
protector of the Christendom, was not willing to let either the troups of
Süleyman the Magnificent nor some monk from Wittenberg to imperil the unity of
the Holy Catholic Church. So he aimed to simply impose the Ban of the Empire
against Luther. But Luther’s own souvereign, Frederic the Wise, Elector of
Saxony, persuaded the emperor to give Luther the chance to defend himself before
any imperial verdict against him. Frederic even more wanted to obviate the
emperor to hand over Luther to the Inquisition because that was a byword for a
death sentence and because as a German it was Luther’s right to be protected
against any tribunal outside of his own country. Furthermore the emperor had to
grant safe conduct to and from the trial. So Charles summoned Luther to the
Imperial Diet of Worms:
We are looking at the high hall, on the left we see the Emperor enthroned,
gatherd around him in two 1/4 arches are the Electors watching the trial (it
should be seven rather than six but that would have lead to unwanted asymmetry),
the hall is filled with several dignitaries from aristocracy, church and from
the imperial towns, along with some trial observers from reuters and the UN...
In the middle of the hall there’s a table, laying on it Luther’s books and
scripts laying that he is asked to recant. In front of the red carpet is
standing Johann Eck, the theologian who represents the emperor in the case, on
the other end of the desk we see Luther himself. He is declaring that he isn’t
able to recant his scripts because they are based on God’s Word, so recanting
them means recanting the Holy Bible. On the other hand, if he was convinced by
Scripture or plain reason that he was wrong he would be the first to throuw his
flawed scripts into the fire.
Well, nobody was able to disprove his scripts so Luther did not recant. He
travelled back to Wittenberg and while he was on his journey the emperor imposed
the Ban of the Empire against him and outlawed him. So everybody was allowed to
kill him without threat of punishment.
I am Finished!
Bye
Jojo
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| (...) snip Beautiful work - Luther (URL) throwing the inkwell> at the devil is great! I think religious themes are underrepresented in Castle building, and I'm glad to see someone doing such great work in the area. Keep it up! Marc Nelson Jr. (20 years ago, 31-Oct-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| WOW! Very nicely detailed, but not over done. Simple and grand. I love the arches of the door that Luther is nailing his proclamation to. Also, love those windows in the courtroom. And, considering that a large majority of castles and churches and (...) (20 years ago, 31-Oct-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| (...) Those models are fantastic! My church also celebrated reformation Sunday today. It is quite rare for anyone in my family to enjoy LEGO MOCs nearly as much as I do, but this model was the exception. I have posted about this on my blog ((URL) (...) (20 years ago, 31-Oct-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.castle, FTX)
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