{"id":1258,"date":"2016-01-03T16:36:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T22:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2016-03-19T22:06:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T03:06:23","slug":"luther-on-pride-of-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2016\/01\/03\/luther-on-pride-of-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Luther on Pride of Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We have many students here who are so full of knowledge after they have been in Wittenberg half a year that they suppose they are more learned than I am. \u00a0When they go out into the country to other people, their knowledge breaks out like a cloudburst. \u00a0It seems to weigh a hundred pounds, but if you put it on a scale, it would only weigh an eighth of an ounce. \u00a0That is what pride does. \u00a0They have learned only a word or two, or they have heard a single word. \u00a0Then this becomes pure Adam, all flesh, so that they all apply their knowledge to achieving some pre-eminence [sic].&#8221; Martin Luther, &#8220;Commentary on Psalm 26,&#8221; in <em>Luther&#8217;s Works<\/em> vol. 12, p. 189.<\/p>\n<p>Humility lays the foundation for true learning in the Christian and classical tradition. Many students learn a small amount and become puffed up in their knowledge. \u00a0Luther points toward this example of how pride and ambition leads down a path toward destruction. \u00a0Pride based on knowledge, especially knowledge of some basic theology, is a dangerous vice. \u00a0It can lead to heresy. \u00a0As Luther explained: &#8220;Other bodily vices are so coarse that we feel them, but this one can always adorn itself with the honor of God and give the impression it has God&#8217;s Word on its side.&#8221; Ibid., p. 188.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We have many students here who are so full of knowledge after they have been in Wittenberg half a year that they suppose they are more learned than I am. \u00a0When they go out into the country to other people, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2016\/01\/03\/luther-on-pride-of-students\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,5,1,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-learning","category-martin-luther-history","category-pride"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1301,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/1301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}