“Whether Soldiers, too Can be Saved” by Martin Luther – Part 1
What is one of Luther’s purposes in writing this book?
What does he want the reader to avoid?
How does he go about making this point?
What does Luther mean when he says, “We must distinguish between an occupation and the man
who holds it, between a work and the man who does it.”?1
How is this a coram deo/coram mundo distinction?
Are Romans 13:1-4 and I Peter 2:13-14 a new understanding of God’s martial law or is this a
rearticulated proclamation of a widely understood, and biblically consistent, institution?
1
Luther’s Works, Volume 46, The Christian in Society III, Saint Louis, MO, 1967, 94.