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Dr. Darrick Taylor - history prof at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas - Farewell to Luther
- I always roll my eyes when I hear someone say that “doubt is a good thing,” since no one who has experienced real, crippling, existential doubt could believe such nonsense.
- Despair
-Scrupulosity
- Having suffered from depression in my own life, Luther’s need for certainty was one of the things that led me to view him more charitably. His theological positions were disastrously wrong, but his anguished search for certainty of his own salvation humanized him for me, as much as his screeching diatribes against the Church repulsed me.
- I frankly confess that I should not want free will to be given me, even if it could be, nor anything else left in my own hands to enable me to strive after salvation…because even though there were no dangers, adversities or devils, I should still be forced to labor with no guarantee of success…If I lived and worked to all eternity, my conscience would never reach comfortable certainty as to how much it must do to please God…I am certain that I please God, not by the merit of my works, but by reason of His merciful favor promised to me.
- He believed the Bible and the Church to be objective realities. The point was that true faith must produce this sort of subjective certainty. That is how you knew it was true, if it produced in you the right kind of experience. If it didn’t, it was false. Thus, when Cajetan or the pope told him he was wrong, Luther could not see this as a mere judgment on him personally but as an attack on faith as such.

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