Jakob Martini was born in Langenstein, near Halberstadt in 1570. By 1602 he became Professor of Logic at Wittenberg after completing his education at the same, eventually holding the Professorship of Ethics in 1613 and then Theology in 1623. Martini wrote extensively on Aristotelian Metaphysics and it can certainly be seen in this disputation, which he wrote while he still taught Logic at Wittenberg in 1611.
MartiniÕs thirty-eighth disputation addresses the topics of Death, Burial, and the State of the Soul after Death. He addresses death in regards to its term, its concept, and its consequences as a Lutheran theologian. Included in this disputation is his theses on how a Christian ought to be buried, how the Roman Catholics wrongly abuse Scripture, even addressing their claims of Limbo and Purgatory.
May the reader enjoy this early 17th century Lutheran disputation on death. May it benefit the church at large and bring us closer to confronting our mortality in the flesh to hold more dearly the immortality we have in Christ.