...rimary importance of this treatise for the present-day reader of Luther lies in its courageous interpretation of the sacraments. But it is important ... ...us interpretation of the sacraments. But it is important also for its place in Luther’s progressive assault upon the total position of the Romans. I... ...bility 1 Luther demolished the three walls behind which Rome sat entrenched in her spiritual- temporal power. Now in The Babylonian Captivity of the ... ...hurch is a common designation for that entire branch of Christendom known as Eastern Orthodoxy, which was split from Western or Latin Christianity in... ... whenever they turned to repentance, remembered above all their exodus from Egypt, and remembering turned back to God who had brought them out. Moses... ...afterwards did the same. How much more ought we to remember our exodus from Egypt, and by this remembrance turn back to him who led us through the w... ...I, who accepted the validity of the imperative or deprecatory formula of the Eastern church. 121 Alexander of Hales (d. 1245) denied the validity of...

...eaches his opinions on the different pratices taken place within the Catholic Church and what they should or do represent. The book is seemingly set in an "angry tone" as this was the first time he accused the pope of being the Antichrist. Luther's book was further published in German by his opponent Franciscan Thomas Murner, in hopes that he would make people aware of t...

...gospel, and of the crime of slandering your brethren. You decry as heretics those who refuse to contravene such plain and powerful words of Scripture in order to acknowledge the mere dreams of your brains! If any are to be called heretics and schismatics, it is not the Bohemians or the Greeks,47 for they take their stand upon the Gospels. It is you Romans who are the heret...