James k baxter biography of martin luther

Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item. New Zealand poet — Baxter in c. Jacquie Sturm. Early life [ edit ]. Life and career [ edit ]. Early literary career [ edit ]. Marriage and later career [ edit ]. Jerusalem [ edit ]. Final years and death [ edit ].

Evidence and allegations of sexual assault [ edit ]. Critical reception and legacy [ edit ]. Selected works [ edit ]. References [ edit ]. Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 4 November Baxter — ". Carcanet Press. Retrieved 5 November Weir, John ed. James K. Baxter Complete Prose Volume 4.

ISBN Retrieved 8 November In Robinson, Roger; Wattie, Nelson eds. Oxford University Press. OCLC September Landfall 75 : National Library of New Zealand.

James k baxter biography of martin luther

January Carl Trueman :. His thinking, while remarkably consistent, does develop over time. He nuances his positions on various issues as he faces challenges which his own Reformation theology generated. Thus, knowing what issues he is facing and when is important when reading him. The benchmark biography of Luther in English is the three volumes by the German historian, Martin Brecht.

These look rather forbidding: nearly pages of text, excluding notes. It was my first introduction to the Reformation and remains a favourite. Bainton was a radical thinker himself, not doctrinally sympathetic to Luther but rather emotionally so: he knew what it was like to be a beleaguered outside, a man at war with his times. Thus, he writes on Luther with considerable passion.

He worked various jobs during this period after dropping out of the University of Otago. Baxter married influential New Zealand writer Jacquie Sturm in Baxter's work in the late s was influenced by Catholicism and critiques of New Zealand society. He is thought to have become disillusioned with society after witnessing extreme poverty in Asia while traveling on a UNESCO stipend in Baxter also joined Alcoholics Anonymous in this period, leading to his achieving sobriety.

From the age of seventeen to the age of twenty-eight I progressed from first-stage to to third-stage alcoholism, with the usual personal, domectic and social upheavals. Since twenty-eight I have found it necessary to stay away from the bottle. Howrah Bridge collected together Baxter's earlier pieces, but also charted his reactions from the short period in the late s when he was in India on a UNESCO Fellowship and witnessed the reality of poverty.

This ended his relatively uneven period. In his later work Baxter examined with ascetic style his religious conviction. The place provided temporary refuge for refuge for hippies, alcoholics, young drug addicts, and society's rejects. The first community, where Baxter had spent some time, was No. In 'Elegy for Boyle Crescent' he tells that the house was trashed by the police and eventyally the site was bulldozed.

In Baxter's memories, it was a place where "the junkies loved on another'. Jerusalem, which had been the first mission station of Mother Mary Joseph Aubertexisted in two phases, from towhen it was closed down, and again in The Maoris owned most of the land and buildings and allowed the community to use them rent-free. The nuns allowed Baxter to use a cottage that belonged to the church.

Many of Baxter's poems were written in the form of verse letters to himself. In Jerusalem Sonnets and Jerusalem Daybook he gave an account of his hard work in the community, material deprivation, and problems with the local farmers. Though Baxter was the figure that held the community together, he left frequently, and was not at Jerusalem when he died, but was buried there.

Baxter had started to write plays in the late s, but it was not until the late s, when he received recognition. Baxter died of a coronary thrombosis in Auckland on October 22,