Works by Martin Luther (Book Guide)

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (works not included). Pages: 28. Chapters: Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein, Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants, Articles of Schwabach, Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir, A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, A Sermon on Indulgences and Grace, Christ lag in Todes Banden, Confession Concerning Christ's Supper, Deutsche Messe, Formula missae, Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, Luther's Large Catechism, Luther's Small Catechism, Martin Luther bibliography, Nun bitten wir den Heiligen Geist, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church, On the Bondage of the Will, On the Councils and the Church, On the Freedom of a Christian, On the Jews and Their Lies, On War against the Turk, Table Talk (Luther), The Adoration of the Sacrament, The Ninety-Five Theses, The Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ-Against the Fanatics, To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, Vom Schem Hamphoras. Excerpt: On the Jews and Their Lies (German: ; in modern spelling ) is a 65,000-word antisemitic treatise written in 1543 by the German Reformation leader Martin Luther. In the treatise, Luther describes Jews as a "base, whoring people, that is, no people of God, and their boast of lineage, circumcision, and law must be accounted as filth." Luther wrote that they are "full of the devil's feces ... which they wallow in like swine," and the synagogue is an "incorrigible whore and an evil slut". In the first ten sections of the treatise, Luther expounds, at considerable length, upon his views concerning Jews and Judaism and how these compare against Christians and Christianity. Following this exposition, Section XI of the treatise advises Christians to carry out seven remedial actions. These are The prevailing scholarly view since the Second World War is that the treatise exercised a major and persistent influence on Germany's attitude toward its Jewish citizens in the centuries between the Reformation and the Holocaust. Four hundred years after it was written, the Nazis displayed On the Jews and Their Lies during Nuremberg rallies, and the city of Nuremberg presented a first edition to Julius Streicher, editor of the Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer, the newspaper describing it as the most radically antisemitic tract ever published. Against this view, theologian Johannes Wallmann writes that the treatise had no continuity of influence in Germany, and was in fact largely ignored during the 18th and 19th centuries. Hans Hillerbrand argues that to focus on Luther's role in the development of German antisemitism is to underestimate the "larger peculiarities of German history." Since the 1980s, some Lutheran church bodies have formally denounced and dissociated themselves from Luther's discriminatory writings on the Jews. In November 1998, on the 60th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Lutheran Church of Bavaria issued a statement: "It is imperative for the Lutheran Church, which knows it