Luther likely *was* less Hellfire than the current crop. That was certainly the impression I got from reading the 16th century documents and commentary thereupon. (Of course I did; I'm bookish and analytical and the product of a Presby/Catholic marriage.) As it's been a while, I'd have to read them again to clarify what the *original* doctrine read.
Be that as it may, Luther kicked open the door for everyone else, and that's all I was so clumsily trying to say. (The "accept Jesus, be saved, proselytize" idea is at least 400 years old; many of the Puritan sects advocated this, as did some of the Huguenot groups -- at least according to my history books and some further reading as suggested thereby.)
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Re: Martin Luther
Date: 2007-11-29 09:28 pm (UTC)Be that as it may, Luther kicked open the door for everyone else, and that's all I was so clumsily trying to say. (The "accept Jesus, be saved, proselytize" idea is at least 400 years old; many of the Puritan sects advocated this, as did some of the Huguenot groups -- at least according to my history books and some further reading as suggested thereby.)