Martin Luther On The Home As A School

Yale Div School in New Haven, CN — Sterling Divinity Quadrangle at Yale University, where Roland Bainton (1894-1984), a noted Reformation historian and Luther biographer, taught for many years as Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History (Wikimedia Commons)

After his own marriage Luther’s tone shifted to a stress upon the home as a school for character. It is the area where the Christian virtues find their readiest exemplification, and, whereas in Catholicism monasticism is the sphere for the cultivation of the counsels of perfection, in Protestantism the home is as it were a functional substitute.

Roland Bainton

Martin Luther on the home as a school