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HERE I STAND is a Luther documentary, not to be confused with the drama LUTHER. Documentaries need not be tedious, but this one is. Even so, there are worse things than boring–like erroneous, which this movie is not (in difference to the revisionist LUTHER) . HERE I STAND covers the length of Luther’s life, including his peasant background, his struggles as a monk, his “born again” experience, his challenges to the authority of the Roman Catholic Church, and his Bible translation work (not the first to translate the Bible into German, but notable for doing so from the recent languages of Hebrew and Greek rather than from Latin) .

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The well-known advantage of this DVD over the flashy and common LUTHER is that it actually addresses Luther’s theological significance, particularly his scare and dissemination of two biblical truths: (1) that salvation is by faith not obliging works (sola fide), and (2) that the ultimate spiritual authority is the Bible not the insitutional Church (sola scriptura) . Also, the DVD shows Luther’s emphasis on biblical authority not as current to him, but in the context of other reformers such as Wycliffe and Hus, which is agreeable since there is a tendency of some today to overestimate Luther to the exclusion of others.

In addition to greater theological and contextual transparency, HERE I STAND is also more objective when it comes to portraying Luther’s character, particularly his “rough, stormy, altogether warlike” temperament, in inequity to LUTHER, which presents a Luther who is heroic, but only in a principled, kindly arrangement, which is far from the whole record. This movie quotes Luther exhorting the princes to “knock down, strangle and stab” revolting peasants, and recognizes Luther’s role in the 100,000 peasant deaths, some of which were tortured. Artwork is shown of Luther with two faces. HERE I STAND is a Luther movie for those wanting more context, less bias, more biographical detail, and the theological significance regarding Luther. However, the person wanting entertainment, an emotional experience, or inspiration to zealous action, would probably like LUTHER better, impartial know that its hero is whitewashed and largely a fiction.

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One serious flaw of the documentary is that while not entirely mute about Luther’s gloomy side (as is LUTHER the drama), it barely hints at Luther’s disgusting, repulsive vulgarity of speech (words that can’t be written here) towards both the Papacy and the Jewish people, noteworthy less his incitements to persecution, even violence, against Jews. Both this antisemitism and his perpetuation of the Catholic belief of church-state union are portion of the terrible side of Luther’s legacy that contributed first to religious wars, such as Thirty Years War, and centuries later to Church complicity with Nazis in Holocaust. This DVD does discuss Luther’s legacy, but notes his contributions to the Reformation and not such negatives as the harm done to Jewish-Christian relations by Luther’s association of the name of Christ with unbiblical hatred towards and persecution of Jews, and so the movie misses an opportunity to provide a needed historical corrective for today’s Christians ignorant of the Church’s antisemitic past. Consequently, the credibility of Christian glance is diminished in the peruse of nonChristians (Jewish, Muslim, atheists, etc) who opinion us as untrustworthy hypocrites when we point out violence and antisemitism in Islamic or Catholic history. Whether our silence is due to shame, complicity, or more benignly, to ignorance, it needs to be publicly and widely addressed and unto now a balanced Luther movie, which could do fair that, has yet to be made, though, as discussed, this DVD is more historically fair than LUTHER, which neither mentions Luther’s worst nor his best (the gospel that saves!) .

“Here I Stand: Martin Luther” is a superbly produced, enthusiastically recommended, 129-minute, tubby color documentary on the life, work, and historical impact of Protestant Reformation leader Martin Luther. This informed and informative DVD production is divided into two part: Luther’s Life (70 minutes) and Luther’s Legacy (60 minutes) . Martin Luther, who began his ecclesiastical career as a German cleric of the Roman Catholic Church, never wanted to be a famed religious leader and challenger to the dominance of the Catholic Church. Indeed, he had entered a monastery to accumulate away from the world and behold his have private salvation. But in seeking that salvation he began to notice the Bible and felt compelled to call what he perceived as the corruptions of the Church of Rome to anecdote. He challenged the prevailing Medieval assumptions concerning religious authority, the nature of God, how Christians (including the clergy) should comport themselves, and how God brings salvation to men, women, and children. Although also available in a VHS format, the DVD format features a bonus: ‘In the Footsteps of Martin Luther’.
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