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Desiderius Erasmus · 1518 · Other
The Familiar Colloquies began as a modest collection of Latin phrases and dialogues designed to help students at the University of Paris improve their conversational Latin. Erasmus initially compiled these exercises around…
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Martin Luther · 1518 · Treatise
Twenty-eight theological and twelve philosophical theses for the Augustinian chapter at Heidelberg, April 1518, where Luther set the 'theologian of the cross' against the 'theologian of glory'.
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Martin Luther · 1519 · Sermon
A short sermon of 1519 on facing death — sin, death and hell set against Christ, the sacraments and the saints — written at the request of a court official.
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Martin Luther · 1519 · Treatise
In the closing weeks of 1519, Luther published three short German sermons on the sacraments, one each on penance, baptism, and the body of Christ. This treatise is the third of them.…
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Martin Luther · 1519 · Treatise
A Treatise on Baptism is a short vernacular sermon Luther published in late 1519, one of three German treatments of the sacraments he issued that year alongside companion pieces on penance and…
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Martin Luther · 1519 · Treatise
Luther's 1519 explanation of the Lord's Prayer, petition by petition, written for lay people from sermons he had preached.
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Martin Luther · 1519–1521 · Commentary
For serious students of the Psalms and of the young Luther: his second lectures, where the theology of the cross takes shape. Dense, long and in an old translation.
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Martin Luther · 1520 · Treatise
In 1520, the same year he published his three great Reformation treatises, Martin Luther also issued a small pastoral work in German for ordinary people who could not read Scripture for themselves.…
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Martin Luther · 1520 · Treatise
Confitendi Ratio, published in Latin at Wittenberg in 1520, is Martin Luther's treatment of private confession written in the crowded year between the Leipzig Debate and the great reforming treatises of the…
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Martin Luther · 1520 · Treatise
A Treatise Concerning the Ban (Sermon von dem Bann) is a short German tract Luther published at Wittenberg in 1520, reworking a sermon he had preached there the previous year on excommunication.…
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Martin Luther · 1520 · Treatise
For readers who think Luther despised good works: his longest answer, walking through the Ten Commandments to show faith as the first work and the source of all the rest. Plain and practical.
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Martin Luther · 1520 · Treatise
In the summer of 1520, between The Treatise on Good Works and The Babylonian Captivity of the Church, Martin Luther published a short German pamphlet with the title Ein Sermon von dem…
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Martin Luther · 1520 · Treatise
The best first Luther: thirty short sections on faith that frees and love that serves. For any reader; nothing here needs a theology degree.
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Martin Luther · 1520 · Treatise
For readers who want Luther's case against the medieval sacraments, from seven to two. Close argument with scholastic terms and much Latin background; not a first read.
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Martin Luther · 1520 · Treatise
For anyone suffering or caring for the sick: Luther's book of comfort, written for his ill prince, setting seven evils against seven blessings. Gentle, short and devotional.
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Martin Luther · 1520 · Treatise
On the Papacy in Rome, against the Most Celebrated Romanist in Leipzig is a German polemical treatise Luther published in the summer of 1520, in the months between the Leipzig debate and…
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Martin Luther · 1520 · Treatise
For readers of history and church reform: Luther's call to the German princes to reform the church themselves. Lively, angry and practical; it assumes some knowledge of 1520 Germany and Rome.
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Martin Luther · 1521 · Treatise
Luther's 1521 answer, article by article, to the forty-one propositions condemned in the papal bull Exsurge Domine.
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Martin Luther · 1521 · Treatise
Luther's longest answer to Hieronymus Emser (1521), on the priesthood of all believers and on how Scripture is to be read.
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Desiderius Erasmus · 1521 · Treatise
Erasmus composed this treatise on contempt for the world during his time as a young Augustinian canon at Steyn monastery in the Netherlands, completing it around 1490 though it was not published…
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Martin Luther · 1521 · Letter
Luther's second reply to Hieronymus Emser, early 1521, in the exchange over his Address to the Christian Nobility.
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Martin Luther · 1521 · Commentary
Luther's exposition of Mary's song (Luke 1:46–55), written in 1520–21 for the young prince John Frederick of Saxony on how God regards the lowly.
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Martin Luther · 1521 · Letter
A short open letter of 1521 against Hieronymus Emser of Leipzig, whose coat of arms bore a goat; the first of Luther's three replies to him that year.
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Martin Luther · 1522 · Treatise
Luther's 1522 warning, written from the Wartburg, that the gospel must spread by preaching and not by riot, even against the clergy's abuses.
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