tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020417.post2137425170294345468..comments2024-02-19T05:09:00.099-06:00Comments on Lutheran Confessions: Mid-life Lesson #18: Don't publish books before you're 40Clint Schneklothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00707900080657719369noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020417.post-19884403237037589392012-08-02T01:57:41.422-05:002012-08-02T01:57:41.422-05:00iUniverse has helped more than 35,000 authors publ...iUniverse has helped more than 35,000 authors publish their books professionally and affordably. Since 1999, we have crafted a reputation for breaking records and blazing new trails in the self-publishing industry.iUniversehttps://twitter.com/iuniversebooksnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020417.post-16140786929144452692012-08-01T06:02:53.595-05:002012-08-01T06:02:53.595-05:00Great!Great!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020417.post-88411981555027905512012-07-08T10:53:42.895-05:002012-07-08T10:53:42.895-05:00The books that have most helped me write are the n...The books that have most helped me write are the novels of John le Carre and Peter Matthiessen. I would like to see a book about the quote below. (It's interesting that your favorite book is by a Dominican. After 40, I wrote a book: <i>Letters from Havana</i> [Amazon].)<br /><br /><br />Some years ago the Luther scholar Scott Hendrix published Luther and the Papacy: Stages in a Reformation Conflict, an important study which demonstrated how Luther’s quarrel was never with the catholic faith as such but with “the papists,” modern innovators who had betrayed that faith universally held. Nevertheless, Luther respected the papacy as a pastoral office, according to Hendrix. Indeed, the primary source of his anger was the betrayal of the pope’s universal pastoral duty by Leo X and his successors. Hendrix showed that Luther’s underlying and consistent criterion in judging the papacy is that by divine right the papacy is a pastoral office “of nourishing people in the church with the Word of God.” This pastoral function is “the criterion for claiming legitimate authority in the church.” Luther’s outrage is directed “at the perversion of the pastoral office.” In fact, Luther “was protesting against the usurpation of the church by an unfaithful hierarchy on behalf of the faithful people, not against the church on behalf of the individual” as he was so often falsely understood.Kathy S.noreply@blogger.com