at Wayland Academy
in Beaver Dam, WI
Featuring
Franz Posset,
Catholic Church
Historian &
Ecumenist
3:30-5:00 pm
“Our Martin” Today and Tomorrow.
The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification of 1999 by the Lutheran World Federation
and the Catholic Church. The signifcance of the
entry of Luther’s works and writings into the records of the World Heritage of the United Nations
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO)
1:15 -3:00 pm Legends and Facts: Popular “Mythconceptions.” Luther’s Table Talk as historical
source material? About Luther’s life and works,
including the so-called 95 Theses on Indulgences of
1517; nailed or mailed? Much ado about nothing?
Throwing the ink pot at the devil and Wartburg
Castle.
10:15-12:15 pm
From Corrupter of Faith
to Father in the Faith.
A brief history of 100
years of Catholic Luther
research. “Our Martin”
in the eyes of Catholic
sympathizers of Luther
in the early 16th century, against the “mythconception” that Luther had no Catholic friends,
and adversarial developments through the centuries. (includes brief coffee break at 11:15 am)
Session Descriptions:
Greeks from the Rills, and the Latin People
from the Puddle” (in 2014).
Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne , Indiana, on “Lutheranism and the Classics”: (a) Luther and Athanasius (in
2012) and (b) on Luther’s Table Talk of 9 August
1532: “The Hebrew Drink from the Source, the
In 2003, Posset was awarded the Natalie Zemon Prize
(Canada) for superb scholarship for the contribution: “Polyglot
Humanism in Germany circa 1520 as Luther’s Milieu and Matrix,”
in Renaissance & Reformation (2003). He is the recipient of the National Croatian Award Davidias in 2014, bestowed by the Croatian
Writers’ Association, for the book Marcus Marulus and the Biblia Latina of
1489 (2013). In 2015 he received the Franz Delitsach Forder-Preis (Germany) for his article “In Search of an Explanation for the Suffering of the Jews,”
in Studies in Christian Jewish Relations (2010). He twice was a speaker at the
He was a major contributor to the “Catholic Luther Symposium” in
Erfurt, Germany, in 2014. For the Luther@500 conference in Melbourne,
Australia, in June 2016, Dr Posset presented on the theme Our Martin:
Catholic sympathizers yesterday, today and tomorrow. Other speaking
engagements abroad include the international conference on Antisemitism
and Ethnography in the Sixteenth Century, at Uppsala University, February
2015. In spring 2017 he will be a speaker in Wroclaw/ Breslau, Poland, on
the Jews in the eyes of Christian Hebraists, a talk based upon his research for
his latest book, i.e., a new biography in English, Johann Reuchlin, which was
published in 2015.
waukee. His area of expertise is Luther’s life and theology from a Catholic
perspective. He has published numerous books and articles on Luther and the
Reformation, bringing new insights which have had a significant impact on
the wider world of Luther scholarship.
Dr Franz Posset, born in 1945, resident of Beaver Dam, is a German
American ecumenist and church historian, a distinguished independent
researcher in the religious thought of the Renaissance and Reformation. He
holds a Diploma in Catholic Theology from the University of Tubingen,
Germany, and a PhD in Religious Studies from Marquette University, Mil-
ABOUT THE PRESENTER: Franz Posset
MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2016
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An Ecumenical Commemoration of 500 Years of
The Protestant Reformatioin
Beaver Dam Ministerium
St. Katharine Drexel
Grace Presbyterian Church
Trinity United Methodist
Harvest Evangelical Free
First Lutheran Church
St. John’s ELCA
Faith Community Church
St. Mark’s Episcopal
Youth for Christ
The evening ecumenical service open to
everyone welcomes The Most Reverend
Richard J. Sklba (left), Auxiliary Bishop
Emeritus of Milwaukee Catholic Archdiocese,
along with Bishop Mary Froiland (lower left),
current Bishop of the ELCA South-central
Synod of Wisconsin. A community combined
choir will be particpating in the worship
service as well. The day’s events all take place in
Wayland Academy’s Kimberly Chapel (below).
From Conflict to Communion: For this evening’s common commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, we employ the
text of the worship designed for world-wide use by the Liturgical Task
Force of the Lutheran-Roman Catholic Commission on Unity.
10:15-12:15 pm From Corrupter of Faith to Father in the Faith
12:15-1:00 pm Lunch Pickard Dining Hall
1:15-3:00 pm Legends & Facts: Popular
Mythconceptions
3:30-5:00 pm “Our Martin” Today and Tomorrow
5:15-6:15 pm Dinner Pickard Dining Hall
6:30-8:00 pm Ecumenical Prayer Service
For more information, call First Lutheran
Church at (920) 885-4497 or email
[email protected].
First Lutheran Church
311 West Mackie Street
Beaver Dam, WI 53916.
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