On Profitable Professions: Martin Bucer, “BS Jobs”, and Modern Money Making
Are concerns about "BS jobs" as old as the Reformation?
Are concerns about "BS jobs" as old as the Reformation?
Starting a new section today in Bucer’s 1535 letter to Bullinger, on that perennially vexed question of Franco-German relations. Bucer on the Gauls Concerning our response to the Gauls: For…
Below is the rest of the section on the possibility of a council from Martin Bucer’s 1535 letter to Bullinger and Leo Jud. The new material begins with “If the…
After a brief hiatus, we are back with the next section of Bucer’s letter to Bullinger and Jud, this one on Christendom and councils, of no little relevance to ongoing…
In the last two posts, we looked at Bucer’s statements on the Wittenberg theologians in his 1535 letter to Bullinger and Leo Jud. Today we move on to a new…
Last time we started Bucer’s comments on the Wittenberg theologians. Today we finish that section. He has some firm words for his Swiss friends. I’ve included the previous passage as…
Today we move on to a new topic in Bucer’s letter to Bullinger and Leo Jud. (I don’t think I mentioned previously that Jud is also a recipient of the…
Here is the fourth installment of a 1535 letter (really, a smorgasbord treatise in miniature) from Martin Bucer to Heinrich Bullinger. This is the last section (for the moment) on…
Part 1, along with some introductory remarks, is here; but I’ve also included the first paragraph of the translation in this post so that the argument is easier to follow.…
Recently, while trying to figure out a few things about the textual history of Martin Luther’s 1535 Galatians commentary, I stumbled across an excerpt from a contemporary (i.e., 1535) letter…
