Here I Stand: Martin Luther
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Artist: T.N. MohanDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 129 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-02-28
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Vision Video
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DVD Review: At Least This Luther Movie's Not Deceptive...
Summary: 3 Stars
HERE I STAND is a Luther documentary, not to be confused with the drama LUTHER. Documentaries need not be boring, but this one is. Even so, there are worse things than boring--like deceptive, which this movie is not (in contrast 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 important for doing so from the original languages of Hebrew and Greek rather than from Latin).
The significant advantage of this DVD over the flashy and popular LUTHER is that it actually addresses Luther's theological significance, particularly his apprehension and dissemination of two biblical truths: (1) that salvation is by faith not good 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 original to him, but in the context of other reformers such as Wycliffe and Hus, which is helpful 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 honest when it comes to portraying Luther's character, particularly his "rough, stormy, altogether warlike" temperament, in contrast to LUTHER, which presents a Luther who is bold, but only in a principled, noble way, which is far from the whole picture. 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, just know that its hero is whitewashed and largely a fiction.
One serious flaw of the documentary is that while not entirely silent about Luther's dark side (as is LUTHER the drama), it barely hints at Luther's disgusting, shocking vulgarity of speech (words that can't be written here) towards both the Papacy and the Jewish people, much less his incitements to persecution, even violence, against Jews. Both this antisemitism and his perpetuation of the Catholic idea of church-state union are part of the bad 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 damage 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 witness is diminished in the sight of nonChristians (Jewish, Muslim, atheists, etc) who view 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 just that, has yet to be made, though, as discussed, this DVD is more historically honest than LUTHER, which neither mentions Luther's worst nor his best (the gospel that saves!).
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Description of Here I Stand: Martin Luther
NOTE: This DVD also includes "In the Footsteps of Martin Luther."It is claimed that there have been more books written about Martin Luther than anyone else other than Jesus Christ. In those lists pundits compile about who were the most influential in shaping our modern world, the name Martin Luther inevitably shows up near the top, usually in the top ten. He is one of those few who can be proclaimed indisputably a "hinge of history."
Yet Luther never wanted to be a renowned world shaper. He was more concerned to save his own soul and entered a monastery to get away from the world and seek his own salvation. But in finding his salvation, he rediscovered foundations of Biblical Christianity that shook the late Medieval world and challenged its assumptions about religious authority, what God was like, how we are to approach him, and how God saves us.
T.N. Mohan, producer and director of the award-winning documentary on the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Hanged on a Twisted Cross, returns to Germany to tell the story of its most famous son, interpreted from an overtly Protestant perspective. In this two-hour special, we come to understand Luther, what motivated him, the turning points in his life, the issues he confronted, the opposition that sought to defeat him, and the profound changes brought about under his leadership and ministry.
PART 1: Luther?s Life (70 minutes)
PART 2: Luther?s Legacy (60 minutes)
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