Martin Luther Quote

I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure.... When letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology, too, has wretchedly fallen and lain prostrate.... It is my desire that there shall be as many poets and rhetoricians as possible, because I see that by these studies as by no other means, people are wonderfully fitted for the grasping of sacred truth and for handling it skillfully and happily.


1521-1530 (ed. 1918)


I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure.... When letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology,...

I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure.... When letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology,...

I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure.... When letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology,...

I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure.... When letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology,...