History of the Christian Church, Volume VII. Modern Christianity. The German Reformation.
considerable originality, learning, eloquence, zeal, and courage, but eccentric, radical, injudicious, ill-balanced, restless, a ...
because God had revealed the truth unto babes (Matt. 11:25), and advised the students to take to agriculture, and earn their bre ...
preparatory and experimental stages of a new movement. His strength lay in a wise, cautious, peaceful diplomacy. But at this tim ...
that I have the gospel, not from men, but from heaven through our Lord Jesus Christ .... I write this to apprise you that I am o ...
The two Swiss, who had studied at Basel, were attracted by the fame of Luther and Melanchthon, and traveled on foot to Wittenber ...
§ 68. Luther restores Order in Wittenberg.—The End of Carlstadt. I. Eight Sermons of Luther preached from Sunday, March 7 (Invoc ...
safe. But what would have been the result? Ruin and desolation of body and soul. I therefore kept quiet, and gave the Word free ...
eucharistic controversy which so seriously interfered with the peace and harmony of the Reformers. He also sympathized with the ...
unblemished character.^492 He had openly denied the papal infallibility; but otherwise he was an orthodox Dominican, and opposed ...
This edict was a compromise, and did not decide the church question; but it averted the immediate danger to the Reformation, and ...
used the old weapons of church authority against freedom. He adhered to the dogma of transubstantiation, even after his breach w ...
In December of the same year in which he wrote his first book against King Henry, Luther began his important treatise "On the Se ...
1825; Ad. Müller, Hamburg, 1828 (Leben des E. v. Rotterdam ... Eine gekrönte Preisschrift; comp. the excellent review of Ullmann ...
with Rome. Thus he lost the respect and confidence of both parties. It would have been better for his fame if he had died in 151 ...
He spent five unhappy years in monastic seclusion (1486–1491), and conceived an utter disgust for monkery. Ulrich von Hutten pas ...
into the genius of antiquity, and felt at home there. He calls Venice the most magnificent city of the world. But the lovely sce ...
these evil times when quarrels and riots prevail everywhere." "This new gospel," he writes in another letter, "is producing a ne ...
"Ciceronianus," or on the best mode of speaking (1528), he ridicules those pedantic semi-pagans, chiefly Italians, who worshiped ...
and satire which he shared with Lucian, he sometimes came near the line of profanity. Moreover, he had a decidedly skeptical vei ...
Bigoted Catholics hated and feared him, as much as the liberal admired and lauded him. "He laid the egg," they said, "which Luth ...
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