{"id":504,"date":"2013-03-24T23:29:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T04:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=504"},"modified":"2013-03-24T23:29:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T04:29:42","slug":"luther-on-depression-and-consolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2013\/03\/24\/luther-on-depression-and-consolation\/","title":{"rendered":"Luther on Depression and Consolation"},"content":{"rendered":"

“When I’m morose I flee above all from solitude.\u00a0 Christ was himself tempted by Satan when our Lord was alone in the wilderness….in short, spiritual anguish exceeds bodily suffering by far<\/strong>.\u00a0 The anguish of Judas–‘you have betrayed innocent blood’–became for him the most awful death.”\u00a0 Martin\u00a0Luther, “Continuation of the Consolation,” Table Talk no. 3698, Luther\u2019s Works<\/em>, volume 54, p. 276. [Emphasis added]<\/p>\n

Martin Luther believed inner turmoil to be worse than physical suffering.\u00a0\u00a0 He also encouraged depressed people to seek consolation in the company of friends.\u00a0 However, he also understood the source of spiritual anguish to be a misunderstanding of God’s Word.\u00a0 He continued the quote from above:<\/p>\n

“This is especially so when the devil turns the gospel into law.\u00a0 The teachings of the law and gospel are altogether necessary but they must be distinguished even when they are conjoined, otherwise men will despair or become presumptuous.” Ibid.<\/p>\n

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“When I’m morose I flee above all from solitude.\u00a0 Christ was himself tempted by Satan when our Lord was alone in the wilderness….in short, spiritual anguish exceeds bodily suffering by far.\u00a0 The anguish of Judas–‘you have betrayed innocent blood’–became for … Continue reading →<\/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":[51,52,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depression","category-gospel","category-martin-luther-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","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=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}