The Marrow of the Soul

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wholesome teaching; in contrast, all scholarship today is as rigid as iron and as heavy as earth, whether it be in the Greek, Latin, or Hebrew language.

If you have the desire to read the old, pure theologyThe study of the nature of God and religious belief in the German language, then you can obtain the sermons of Johannes Tauler, the Dominican friar Johannes Tauler (c. 1300–1361) was a German mystic and monk whose emphasis on internal spirituality deeply moved the early Reformers; for I have found no theology, in either the Latin or the German language, that is more pure and wholesome, or which so aligns with the Gospel. Note: in his commentary on the 5th Psalm, he [Luther] calls him a "man of God."