Reformation Day (31 October) honors Martin Luther's objection to the Bishop of Mainz concerning the selling of indigences. The anniversary is observed by societies of various stripes. Chile and Slovenia, celebrate Reformation Day as a national holiday, for example, even though both countires have Catholic majorities. Others, especially Reformed Churches in the United States, move commemarations to the Sunday before, calling it Reformation Sunday. Luther’s letter cascaded into a central episode of the Reformation, the Diet of Worms (Jan 28–May 25, 1521).
Now, in those days a Diet was less about losing weight and more about weighty judgments. Or to be more exact a Diet was "the general assembly of the estates of the former Holy Roman Empire". …show more content…
For Eck, Luther is confounding the truth with opinion. One discovers truth by wrestling with and improving upon the accepted assemblage of political reality. If every individual's conscience carried equal value, what would become of society as they knew it? Remember Hobbes, Kant, Bentham and Mill, and Nietzsche had not yet imagined new political possiblities. Luther’s declaration was historic.
Yet, as Eck mentioned, others before Luther had claimed conscience as their shepherd. How, then, was Luther destinct? Eck’s examples didn't live in a technological refiguring. Technological change always stays abreast of culture integration but sometimes technology utterly outruns culture. In such moments, those who can leverage new technics have a pronounced advantage. Often such technological savvy groups begin as peripheral, but in time reveals the contaminated quality of the centre.
Luther’s day saw the printing press. Printing made ideas spread faster, further, and cheaper. By leveraging the potential of print, Luther challenged and changed the Church, if not the world. He uncovered incongtueties in the societal consensus. He, in effect, warped collective memory refiguring the perceived
Now, in those days a Diet was less about losing weight and more about weighty judgments. Or to be more exact a Diet was "the general assembly of the estates of the former Holy Roman Empire". …show more content…
For Eck, Luther is confounding the truth with opinion. One discovers truth by wrestling with and improving upon the accepted assemblage of political reality. If every individual's conscience carried equal value, what would become of society as they knew it? Remember Hobbes, Kant, Bentham and Mill, and Nietzsche had not yet imagined new political possiblities. Luther’s declaration was historic.
Yet, as Eck mentioned, others before Luther had claimed conscience as their shepherd. How, then, was Luther destinct? Eck’s examples didn't live in a technological refiguring. Technological change always stays abreast of culture integration but sometimes technology utterly outruns culture. In such moments, those who can leverage new technics have a pronounced advantage. Often such technological savvy groups begin as peripheral, but in time reveals the contaminated quality of the centre.
Luther’s day saw the printing press. Printing made ideas spread faster, further, and cheaper. By leveraging the potential of print, Luther challenged and changed the Church, if not the world. He uncovered incongtueties in the societal consensus. He, in effect, warped collective memory refiguring the perceived