Luther

Summary

Dominique Pagani takes from Luther first of all the translation of the Bible into German. For him, it is a fundamental political act that frees Germany from Rome and opens its modern history. He sees the Reformation as a refusal to pay taxes to Rome and a return to primitive purity against the Church. He grants that Luther is right to condemn simony and the trade in relics. From *On the Freedom of a Christian*, he retains that there is no privileged caste: the Church is the assembly of believers1. He also points out, several times, that Luther let the peasants be massacred2. He often comes back to music: for Luther, "Frau Musica" is the greatest divine service after theology, hence the Protestant chorale and the musical richness that follows from it, down to the spiritual3. He reads the chorale *Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott* as the expression of a German paranoia of the besieged fortress and of a dread of penetration45.

1. 1#3.3 From Ulysses to Daedalus1 Aug 2017 · 1:39:25
2. 2#10 Benefits and harms of amnesia…24 Dec 2020 · 35:29
3. 3#3 Harnessed to confinitude4 Apr 2020 · 3:31
4. 4#6 The jazz variation… by Beethoven15 Dec 2020 · 44:10
5. 5From fidelity to grace: from substance to subject30 May 2024 · 1:13:48

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