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On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church

By: Martin Luther

...CTION The primary importance of this treatise for the present-day reader of Luther lies in its courageous interpretation of the sacraments. But it i... ... controversial works, and died in 1528. The title of the tract is Revocatio Martini Lutheri Augustiniani ad sanctam sedem [The Recantation of the Au... ...i Lutheri Augustiniani ad sanctam sedem [The Recantation of the Augustinian Martin Luther before the Holy See]. Its date is November 22, 1519, at Cre... ... such work more than half a year before, in a letter to Spalatin of December 18, 1519: “There is no reason why you or anyone else should expect from ... ...hird came from the facile pen of Bertram Lee Woolf (Reformation Writings of Martin Luther: Vol. I, The Basis of the Protestant Reformation) and was ... ...Obelisci, to which Luther replied with the Asterisci (WA 1, 281–314; St. L. 18, 536–589), culminated in their Leipzig disputation in 1519. Jerome Ems... ...of death from hell! But what is to be done with the deacons and subdeacons, 18 who are neither laymen nor priests? According to this distinguished ... ...r impair the papal state Luther was named in the bull for the first time on March 28, 1521, along with Wycliffe and Huss. In 1522 Luther translated t... ...d ”mystery.“ 162 Erasmus edited the first published Greek New Testament in March, 1516. Luther used Erasmus’ work as soon as it came out, as may be...

...Martin Luther goes through the seven sacraments of the medieval Catholic Church with his interpretation of the Bible. He teaches his opinions on the different pratices taken place within the Catholic Church and what they sho...

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