March 26, 1521: No Such Thing as Fortune
Luther: In Real Time
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 26 March 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Hundreds of miles from Wittenberg, a boy named John Calvin schools his schoolmaster on the nature of God's providence. Meanwhile, Martin Luther is teaching his own students today when an awaited messenger approaches.
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| 0:00.0 | It's March the 26th, 1521. Luther is spending the morning tutoring his students at Vittemberg University. |
| 0:21.0 | Meanwhile, 450 miles away in the town of Neuil in Picardie, France, |
| 0:27.0 | an 11-year-old boy sits on a bench in a small grammar school in the shadow of a nearby cathedral. |
| 0:36.0 | His name, in French, is Jean-Covard. |
| 0:41.0 | He gazes up at his schoolmaster. |
| 0:46.0 | By the mirror's chance, these clusters of shimmering light |
| 0:52.0 | restrain themselves from the urge to wander aimlessly throughout the fathomless universe |
| 0:59.0 | to explore the vastness of space. |
| 1:02.0 | Majestère, with respect, did you say by the mirror's chance? |
| 1:07.0 | That is correct, Calvin. |
| 1:10.0 | Majestère, is there such a thing as chance? |
| 1:13.0 | Because causes are hidden from us. |
| 1:16.0 | It creeps into our minds that affairs turn at the blind urge of fortune |
| 1:20.0 | as if God were making sport of men by throwing them about like balls. |
| 1:24.0 | Well, well, it is certainly the case that we... |
| 1:27.0 | Augustine lamented the fact that in some of his earlier writings, he used the term fortune. |
| 1:33.0 | Well, yes, quite. Fortun, of course, is a derivation of the goddess Fortuna. |
| 1:39.0 | Though the specific reason and cause of an event be secret to our minds, |
| 1:44.0 | nevertheless, we do well not to ascribe any event cosmic or human to chance. |
| 1:50.0 | Indeed, Calvin, thank you. |
| 1:54.0 | Well, I'm sure we are all indebted to you. |
| 1:57.0 | In an ordered world, it must be that God's providence is the determinative principle of all events, |
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