Luther, the Middle Ages, and Anti-Judaism (with Volker Leppin)

Thank you very much for inviting me.

I wanted to maybe discuss the Luther Congress for a little bit.

You know, the last episode we actually had Anna Marie Johnson on, who is, do you know her? Yes, and I saw that she's here.

She actually had a book in Lutheran Quarterly, and so our last episode was actually with her about that book.

But for me, this Congress has been really neat, especially for a first-timer, because it's like I'm walking around and I'm looking at name tags, because we all have name tags, and It's kind of like a who's who in Luther scholarship.

And so it's really, it's just such a blessing and a great thing to be able to attend something like this.

But yeah, how has this Luther Congress been for you? Do you want to share a little bit about what seminars you've been involved with or attended or short talks or anything like that that So

I myself, I'm leading a seminar about mysticism and individuality, which is quite interesting.

It's an opportunity with a systematic theologian, Notka Slenska from Berlin.

Yes,

I met him earlier.

I'll get to him in a second.

I really like him for a lot of reasons.

He's a

wonderful person and a wonderful scholar.

And we... disagree in some points in the understanding of the same texts and that makes it so interesting.

You're sitting together with 10 or 15 people who are all experts in Luther.

We are discussing those texts and you see it is not easy to say just look into the text.

You see we all have a different lens and we come into exchange That is not so often the case.

Usually, even if you are teaching at a Luther seminary, there are not so many who really are, well, Luther researchers say in the sense of, I always work with those Luther texts.

And here they are all coming together.

And that's just fun.

Yeah.

I met him and we talked.

did a bus excursion.