Hymn History A Mighty Fortress is Our God

[@charlotteknutsen7262]

My favorite hymn alongside "Beneath the Cross of Jesus". My Dad was Lutheran minister and besides his calling to teach of minister to other's about God's love and Jesus's ultimate scrafice for us, Dad so enjoyed teaching about Martin Luther. This song, "A Mighty Fortress is our God".....It does and ALWAYS will fill my heart and give me chills of joy.

[@folusojoseph989]

Who wouldn’t like this hymn? Listen to the soundtrack. Also listen to the wording. I shivers with joy every time I listen to this song. This is America number one song.

[@no8592]

It's not American. It's German.

[@SamDavis-b4u]

Really I'm cried because of my favourite Luther's hymn.... And I loved him and John Wickliffe and their reformation..... My fortress is my "GOD"...Amen ....my GOD is my only fortress....

[@garethifan1034]

Agreed Sam! To God be the Glory.

[@rkooyers]

Martin Luther was a white supremacist. Hitler used his in theology to exterminate the Jews during the holocaust. My father would strike me when he was angry for his failures at his work. I had to use my forts as my protection. He attended Calvin College and Hope College in metro Grand Rapids, MI. He ignored the fact I was autistic. My mother taught me about empathy, compassion, and human kindness. I will embrace these ideals the rest of my life, even though I'm an atheist activist. Peace be unto you.

[@SantaFe19484]

My favorite hymn.

[@tubularbill]

One of the most important songs ever written

[@davidduerr2588]

That is a section of the final movement of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's "Reformation Symphony" (Symphony #5). It was written in 1830 in honor of the 300th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession.

[@darktrip1774]

thanks a lot :)

[@RA-dm1yn]

Thank you 🙏 for this channel. I am learning so much!

[@tanyadixon8708]

magnificent!!

[@nomjohnson]

Thankyou for this beautiful presentation and history. God bless you.

[@davidduerr2588]

I appreciate your kind words--all of the hymn history segments on You Tube were developed for an 11th-12th grade class I teach every other year to primarily home school background students in the south San Francisco Bay Area--followers of Christ have a rich family history and our hymns provide a wonderful record of it. God's blessings on you as well.

[@tjotwo]

What a vital ministry! May the Lord continue to bless your efforts!

[@michaelturilli4314]

The Battle Hymn of the Reformation!

[@limnos99]

The Battle Hymn of Christians the world over now, as the forces of darkness rise up against us! We are persecuted across the world, even in the US now. Psalm 37:12-13 The wicked plots against the righteous And gnashes at him with his teeth. The Lord laughs at him, For He sees his day is coming.

[@ModerateMic]

Amen!

[@ModerateMic]

@@limnos99 Amen. I wouldn’t call this JUST the battle hymn of the Reformatuon. It certainly is, but it’s also the battle cry of the Christian church.

[@arlenehensley7305]

What a comfort!

[@rexwegner4049]

A true great one

[@specialforces101]

Magnificent

[@mic1240]

Lutherans use different words in singing this...(all major American Lutheran churches, ElCA, LCMS, etc,) surprised the non Lutheran translations are used, perhaps holdover from England

[@janrenn3779]

This is the version in my 1958 Lutheran Hymnal by the American Evangelical Lutheran Church, the American Lutheran Church, The Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, The Evangelical Lutheran Church, The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, The Lutheran Free Church, The United Evangelical Lutheran Church and the United Lutheran Church in America. I remember singing these very same verses as a child at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Fulton, Maryland. It might be different now, but fifty years ago they were still singing these very same verses.

[@maxlever9196]

This is the inferior Frederic Hedge translation. He was American, schooled in Germany and Harvard. His father was a metaphysics professor at Harvard ( that itself explains things). Frederic became a Unitarian. So his translation had none of the strident fire of Luther's German text. It is watered down and weak, and that's why many other denominations use it. Pay attention to the words in this one, kzbin.info/www/bejne/oHSxYXyig6itpZY You can see the strength Luther found in Christ, the strength this gave his personal faith, and the strength that faith gave him to reject and fight sin and evil.

[@ericrachut4207]

@@maxlever9196 We used Hedge in the ALC of my childhood in the fifties; when I joined the LCMS in the late sixties, the more literal translation struck me as less "poetic." My perspective on that has changed! (Incidentally, the "doth seek to work us woe" in Hedge is taken from Milton's Paradise Lost - and Milton's poem, while a great one, has the Arian heresy). Mendelssohn, whose 5th Symphony ("Reformation") is the background music at the beginning, as actually a Calvinist. We'll take his compliment, though! The background of the sung hymn is the reconstructed Castle Church in Wittenberg, the site of the posting of the 95 Theses and Luther's burial site. His grave, the pulpit and one statue are all that actually remains from destruction by French arterillery in the Nine Years War. So much of the truth that Martin Luther insisted upon, the embers he fanned into flames, more than five hundred years ago, has had its veneer eroded, replaced and restored, but the glory of the Reformation, justification by faith alone, remains, and always will remain.

[@darktrip1774]

What's the name of the intro song?

[@ad2181]

Sadly this will be lost to a demographic shift in Europe anong with West Civilization.

[@BrknVeel]

maybe I misunderstand, but was this Christian hymn just said to "cast a potent SPELL"??? seriously?

[@lukemak2009]

人民有信仰, 国家有力量, 民族有希望. www.o-bible.com/b5/hb5.html

[@ronaldmessina4229]

Y porqué hay que traducir al anglosajón? el anglosajón no tiene nada de la gracia necesaria para hacer traducciones 😮