Education Reforms of Martin Luther

The children should be taught at church, at school, and at home; and to that end pastors, teachers, and parents should receive prior training. Hence Luther's plea that Catholic schools be replaced by municipal schools with a system of compulsory education including religion. 'The Scripture cannot be understood without the languages,' argued Luther, 'and the languages can be learned only in school. If parents cannot spare their children for a full day, let them send them for a part. I would wager that in half of Germany there are not over four thousand pupils in school. I would like to know where we are going to get pastors and teachers three years from now . ' The mere training of pastors, teachers, and parents would, however, not suffice. They must in turn be provided with a body of religious literature adapted to children (Bainton 262).

According to the reformed theological concepts of Luther, there needed to be a revised catechism to correct the doctrinal abuses of the Roman Catholic Church. wrote two catechisms: the Large Small Catechism

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nt from canonic validity. He would have liked to remove many more books from the biblical canon, e.g., the Book of Esther, and others" (Tillich 211). Luther took out the Apocrypha due to the fact that these documents are filled with legalisms. This legal approach was a characteristic of the Roman Church, and the Apocrypha continued to be a part of their Bible. Thus to be a part of their Bible. Thus through Luther's influence, there are two Christian Bibles: The Roman and Protestant versions, and they are dissimilar for the reasons stated. Contrary to Luther's emphasis on the final authority of the Bible in theological concerns, the Roman Catholic Church maintained its belief that it is the ultimate authority on spiritual matters. The infallibility of the Pope on faith and morals was completely rejected by Luther. As recent as 1950, the Pope made an ex cathedra decision concerning the bodily assumption of the Virgin Mary into heaven. There is a tradition regarding this more than a thousand years old. However, there is nothing about it in the Bible, a situation which Luther would say is the real truth. According to Luther, if a theological matter is not in the Bible, there is no authority for the belief. This is a dis
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