CHAPTER XL

. AT THE GRAVE _pages_ 387-462

1. LUTHER’S FAME AMONG THE FRIENDS HE LEFT BEHIND.

Extracts from the panegyrics and early biographies; medals struck in his honour; his epitaphs _pages_ 387-394

2. LUTHER’S MEMORY AMONG THE CATHOLICS. THE QUESTION OF HIS GREATNESS.

Luther’s defiance of the whole world, whilst evoking their wonder, failed to secure the admiration of Catholics. Whether Luther’s undoubted strength of will makes of him a “great man.” The part played by other factors in the movement he inaugurated _pages_ 394-407

3. LUTHER’S FATE IN THE FIRST STRUGGLES FOR HIS SPIRITUAL HERITAGE.

Defeat of the Schmalkalden Leaguers. Osiandric, Majorite, Adiaphoristic, Synergistic and Cryptocalvinist controversies _pages_ 407-423

4. MUTUAL INFLUENCE OF THE TWO CAMPS. GROWING STRENGTH OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.

The Lutherans are induced to adopt the Formula of Concord as a counterblast against the Council of Trent. Catholic theology benefits by the new controversies; the Church’s religious life is deepened; progress in catechetical instruction, in matters educational, Bible-study and Church-history _pages_ 423-439

5. LUTHER AS DESCRIBED BY THE OLDEN “ORTHODOX” LUTHERANS.

Their “mediæval” attitude. Luther the “Prophet of the Germans,” a New Elias and John the Baptist _pages_ 440-444

6. LUTHER AS SEEN BY THE PIETISTS AND RATIONALISTS.

Each in their own way make of Luther their forerunner and breathe into him their own ideals _pages_ 444-448

7. THE MODERN PICTURE OF LUTHER.

The Romanticists; liberal theologians; independent historians; the Janus-Luther, with one face looking back on the Middle Ages and the other turned to the coming world. Ritschl, E. M. Arndt. Luther the hero of Kultur? Houston S. Chamberlain’s picture of the “Political Luther.” Conclusion _pages_ 449-462

XLI. APPENDIX I. LUTHER’S WRITINGS AND THE EVENTS OF THE DAY, ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER _pages_ 465-495

XLII. APPENDIX II. ADDITIONS AND EMENDATIONS _pages_ 496-516

1-2. LUTHER’S VISIT TO ROME.

The Scala Santa; the General Confession; Oldecop’s account of Luther’s petition to be secularised; the outcome for the Order of Luther’s visit to Rome _pages_ 496-497

3. LUTHER’S CONCEPTION OF “OBSERVANCE” AND HIS CONFLICT WITH HIS BROTHER FRIARS _pages_ 497-501

4. ATTACK UPON THE “SELF-RIGHTEOUS” _pages_ 501-503

5. THE COLLAPSE OF THE AUGUSTINIAN CONGREGATION _pages_ 503-504

6. THE TOWER INCIDENT _pages_ 504-510

7. THE INDULGENCE-THESES _page_ 510

8. THE TEMPTATIONS AT THE WARTBURG _page_ 511

9. PRAYER AT THE WARTBURG _pages_ 511-512

10. LUTHER’S STATE DURING HIS STAY AT THE COBURG _page_ 512

11. LUTHER’S MORAL CHARACTER _pages_ 512-513

12. LUTHER’S VIEWS ON LIES _pages_ 513-515

13. LUTHER’S LACK OF THE MISSIONARY SPIRIT _pages_ 515-516

14. Notes: Pope Alexander VI “the Maraña”; from Bishop Maltitz’s letters to Bishop Fabri _page_ 516

General Index to the six volumes _pages_ 517-551

VOL. VI

SURVEY OF LUTHER’S WORK. HIS AILMENTS. HIS DEATH

LUTHER

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