In the early days of Martin Lutherâ??s sojourn at the Wartburg, before he settled into his frantic pace of work, he seemed to lapse into a delirious, mystical state. The serenity of the landscape, the call of the nightingale, the joy of isolation, the freedom from fear, the distance from harassing inquisitorsâ??all these presaged a time when he would be more productive in his theological and literary output than at any other period of his life.
It is not surprising that in his solitude the natural and unnatural, the healthy and unhealthy physical life of a human being should have come into his thoughts. That process would lead him to ponder again the question of priestly celibacy and to deliberate on his own sexuality and on carnal drives in general.
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