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The ultimate, epic saga of love, war, death, destruction, hope, power and faith. Excerpts from Stephan Füssel`s introduction to 'The Luther Bible of 1534'
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Only two months later, Rome started proceedings against him; in the course of the Diet of Augsburg Cardinal Legate Cajetan (1469-1534) questioned him on behalf of Pope Leo X (reg. 1513-1521), but Luther did not recant; in December, his patron, Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony, refused to extradite Luther to Rome or to banish him from his country. Talks, lectures and sermons came thick and fast, culminating in 1519 in the "Dispute of Leipzig" between theology professor Johann Eck of Ingolstadt, Andreas von Karlstadt and Luther himself. Luther insisted on his doctrine of justification and went so far as to reject any authority of the Church over Scripture, acknowledging only functional importance to ecclesiastical offices and concluding that even Church Councils may be mistaken. In his papal bull Exsurge Domine of 15 June 1520 Pope Leo X exhorts him to recant within 60 days and threatens to excommunicate him, while Luther continues to issue his "main Reformation treatises": An den Christlichen Adel teutscher Nation ... (Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation respecting the Reformation of the Christian Estate), De captivitate Babylonica ecclesiae and Of the Freedom of a Christian Man. Of this tract alone, 36 editions were published within two years, in German, Dutch, English, Spanish, Czech and Latin.
These and other writings were consigned to the flames by papal nuncio Girolamo Aleandro (1480-1542) in Cologne and Mainz; Luther in turn burned the first papal bull on 10 December in Wittenberg as well as a copy of the Canon Law. On 3 January 1521 Pope Leo X issued the bull of formal excommunication (Decet Romanum pontificem). In April 1521 Luther was forced to answer to Emperor Charles V (1500-1558) and the Diet of Worms. His journey there seemed like a triumphal entry; the Edict of Worms, however, placed a ban on Luther and strictly forbade the printing and dissemination of his writings. Protected by Elector Frederick of Saxony, Luther successfully hid as "Junker Jörg" (Sir George) from May 1521 to March 1522 in Wartburg castle, where he wrote several sermons and other works, among them the Magnificat verdeutscht und ausgelegt (a German translation and interpretation of the Magnificat; Luke 1:46-55) as well as a translation of the New Testament from Greek in only 11 weeks, from December 1521 to February 1522.
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Only two months later, Rome started proceedings against him; in the course of the Diet of Augsburg Cardinal Legate Cajetan (1469-1534) questioned him on behalf of Pope Leo X (reg. 1513-1521), but Luther did not recant; in December, his patron, Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony, refused to extradite Luther to Rome or to banish him from his country. Talks, lectures and sermons came thick and fast, culminating in 1519 in the "Dispute of Leipzig" between theology professor Johann Eck of Ingolstadt, Andreas von Karlstadt and Luther himself. Luther insisted on his doctrine of justification and went so far as to reject any authority of the Church over Scripture, acknowledging only functional importance to ecclesiastical offices and concluding that even Church Councils may be mistaken. In his papal bull Exsurge Domine of 15 June 1520 Pope Leo X exhorts him to recant within 60 days and threatens to excommunicate him, while Luther continues to issue his "main Reformation treatises": An den Christlichen Adel teutscher Nation ... (Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation respecting the Reformation of the Christian Estate), De captivitate Babylonica ecclesiae and Of the Freedom of a Christian Man. Of this tract alone, 36 editions were published within two years, in German, Dutch, English, Spanish, Czech and Latin.
These and other writings were consigned to the flames by papal nuncio Girolamo Aleandro (1480-1542) in Cologne and Mainz; Luther in turn burned the first papal bull on 10 December in Wittenberg as well as a copy of the Canon Law. On 3 January 1521 Pope Leo X issued the bull of formal excommunication (Decet Romanum pontificem). In April 1521 Luther was forced to answer to Emperor Charles V (1500-1558) and the Diet of Worms. His journey there seemed like a triumphal entry; the Edict of Worms, however, placed a ban on Luther and strictly forbade the printing and dissemination of his writings. Protected by Elector Frederick of Saxony, Luther successfully hid as "Junker Jörg" (Sir George) from May 1521 to March 1522 in Wartburg castle, where he wrote several sermons and other works, among them the Magnificat verdeutscht und ausgelegt (a German translation and interpretation of the Magnificat; Luke 1:46-55) as well as a translation of the New Testament from Greek in only 11 weeks, from December 1521 to February 1522.
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udges, fol. Lv: Samson tearing down the house of the Philistines