CHAPTER XXXV

. LUTHER’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS SOCIETY AND

EDUCATION (continued in Vol. VI) _pages_ 557-606

1. HISTORICAL OUTLINES FOR JUDGING OF HIS SOCIAL WORK.

Luther’s “signal services” as they appear to certain modern Protestants. The fell results of his twin principle: 1º, that the Church is alien to the world, and 2º, has no power to make binding laws _pages_ 557-568

2. THE STATE AND THE STATE CHURCH.

The State de-Christianised and the Church regarded as a mere union of souls. Luther as “Founder of the modern State.” The secular potentate assimilated to King David. The New Theocracy. The Established Church. Significance of the Visitation introduced in the Saxon Electorate. The “Instructions of the Visitors.” Luther to the end the plaything of divergent currents _pages_ 568-606

VOL. V.

THE REFORMER (III)

LUTHER

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