Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count.

With Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird, Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.

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Music Well, welcome to Mortification of Spin, as most of you out there should know, and if you don't know, shame on you.

2017, next year will be the 500th anniversary of Luther's nailing of the 95 Theses

to the castle door in Wittenberg.

Ironically, of course, the nailing of the 95 Theses was in and of itself, neither an

exceptional thing.

He was merely calling for a debate to explore the church's teaching on indulgences, nor was it the most important thing that Luther

did. Luther did a whole lot of other stuff that was of much more vital significance to the Reformation.

And perhaps central to that is, of course, the translation of the Bible into the German language,

a translation which helped found the modern German language.

Luther starts the project in 1521, when after the Diet of Worms, he's whisked away,

kidnapped by his own men to the Vartburg Castle, high above the town of Eisenach in modern

day Germany, and squirreled away there in his study, he begins to translate

the New Testament. The completion of the Old and New Testament translations occurred in 1534.

Luther, though, continued to work revising his Bible translation almost to the point of his

death. And it's a real delight,

therefore, that the publisher Hendricksons have produced a facsimile of the magnificent

1545 edition of the Luther Bible. And today on Mordification of Spin, we want to talk about this facsimile. We want to talk

about the significance of Bible translation. And we want to celebrate the great contribution that

Dr. Martin made to world Christianity. Todd, you don't read much, but this Bible has pictures.

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