I Ate and Drank With These Teachers: Martin Luther and Pilgram Marpeck on Being ‘Theologians of the Cross’
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Abstract
y title could create the impression that it refers to an event in Auerbach's Keller in Leipzig, or at least to Martin Luther and his students at table talk in Wittenberg.In fact, it does not refer to a scene at all but to a metaphorical reminiscence of Pilgram Marpeck in 1531 of what had happened to him a decade earlier.Marpeck was commenting on his excitement at learning the truth of the gospel from Lutheran teachers in the early 1520s.The words are found in a tract he wrote in 1531, which was a sharp critique against his former teachers.2 He does not tell us who these teachers were, but we know two of them by name.One was Jacob Strauss, a former Dominican who, in 1521, taught and preached in Hall near Innsbruck.In less than a year the Bishop of Brixen had expelled him, but Strauss left behind a number of published Flugschriften on subjects popular with the reformers.Marpeck, who lived a day's journey from Hall in Rattenberg, was without doubt acquainted with the work of Strauss.The other teacher was Stefan Castenbaur, who came to Rattenberg as prior of the Augustinian community there.Because of his eloquent preaching he was chosen as preacher at Marpeck's parish church where he preached the gospel of salvation by grace.Other teachers taught the young Marpeck through their writings, one of whom was Martin Luther himself.Marpeck is clear about what they did for him.He wrote: "I came to the truth partly through their writing, teaching, and preaching . . .Where before I had been bound and had suffered in conscience, I was now free . . .[I] thought they preached a splendid Christ."But these teachers, he continues, said nothing about the mystery of the cross of Christ.3 That, of course, cannot apply to Luther.Marpeck's writings attest that at this critical point, as well as at others, he was all his life indebted to Luther.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".