Daphne farrago biography of martin luther

By Edward J. Hahnenberg

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Table talk with Martin Luther is an intergenerational two week dialogue between the author and Martin Luther. The setting is at the authors lakeside home. Dr. Luther appears in the morning for informal discussions with the author, each giving their perspectives on the reformation and current church practice. The discussions are diverse and engaging on topics ranging from justification, indulgences, the papacy, church councils, and the issues that gave rise to the reformation. It is a work everyone interested in ecumenical dialogue should read.

        * The zodiacal light is probably what the ancients called Trabes. Emicant Trabes quos docos vocant. — Pliny lib. 2.

        Having adopted this view of the subject, I had little further hesitation. Granting that on my del I should meet with atmosphere essentially the same as at the surface of the earth, I conceived that, by means of the very ingenious apparatus of M. Grimm, I should readily be enabled to condense it in sufficient quantities for the purpose of respiration. This would remove the chief obstacle in a journey to the moon. I had indeed spent some money and great labor in adapting the apparatus to the purposes intended, and inom confidently looked forward to its successful application, if I could manage to complete the voyage within any reasonable period. This brings me back to the rate at which it might be possible to travel.

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