Product: Luther [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Germany ]
Rating: 5.0
Luther - a must have DVD
This movie is outstanding. It portrays the abusive state of the Roman Catholic Church in the 1500s. It is reasonably accurate, but like any video, it cannot portray all that a person is. It does not include Luther's changes in his later life where he (as did the Roman Church) elevate the clergy to be special keepers of the faith. Nonetheless, what is portrayed is powerfull and certainly one gets the price paid for listening to and obeying God while trying to work within the instutition of the earthy "church." It is very much like that today in many American churches, where the gospel has become distorted by both the fundamentalists and liberals of modernity and those who have abandoned objective truth all together in postmodernity. It brought this reader to a new sense of great humility for the blessings and freedoms that we do injoy in the western world and the incredible strength from God as we experience him and live in that relationship.