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Luther and Lutheranism: The P.O. Box Martin Luther

Authors

  • Marco Ornelas Universidad Iberoamericana

Abstract

This article explores the idea that social communication performs coupled with the consciousness of human beings –but it is not generated by it–, and gives the example of the German reformer Martin Luther. An overlap in the operations of consciousness and of communication –interpenetration– is made possible with the person/actor distinction, which actualizes in communication through schemata (the person-scheme and the actor-scheme), the so called P. O. Box Martin Luther. Luther’s positioning in relation to the polemical controversies in which he participated –the Peasants’ War (radical Anabaptism), the free will, and the sacramental debate–, determined the future course of his Reform, and was decisively oriented by the person-scheme. The person/actor schemata also allow the distinction between Luther the person and Lutheranism the doctrine.

Keywords:

social systems theory, consciousness/communication coupling, person/actor distinction, schemata, Martin Luther