“Martin Luther & Education” by Matthieu Arnold

“Christians are to be taught . . .” Scholars of Martin Luther have not failed to notice the repetition of this phrase in the central part of the Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences (The Ninety-Five Theses). On the contrary, they observed how many of these theses (42–51) begin with docendi sunt christiani, which illustrated a trend during the Reformation of discussing education.2 In effect, the Ninety-Five Theses, whether publicly debated or not,3 nicely reveals the university teaching of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. “Out of love and zeal for truth and the desire to bring it to light,”4 clarifies the prologue of the Ninety-Five Theses, or Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences.

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