Dr. Carter Lindberg discusses the question: What is the difference between court prophets, who vindicate rulers, and authentic prophets, who hold leaders accountable to God?

Carter Lindberg, Ph.D., is professor emeritus of church history at Boston University School of Theology. This interview was recorded during the “Forgotten Luther II Symposium” held at Lutheran Church of the Reformation in Washington, DC, January 19-20, 2018. This video is provided by ELCA World Hunger, a ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA.) Dr. Lindberg’s full presentation from the symposium was published in The Forgotten Luther II: Reclaiming the Church’s Public Witness (2019), available from Fortress Press. To purchase the book, please visit fortresspress.com/forgottenlutherii.