Luther's Two
Narratives on Diet
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The
Martin Luther Trial: An Account
by
Douglas
Linder (c) 2010
"Here I stand. I cannot do
otherwise. God help me. Amen." --Martin
Luther (1521).
| Historians
have described it as
the trial that led to the birth of the modern world. Before the
emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and the Diet of Worms in the spring of
1521, as Luther biographer Roland H. Bainton noted, "the past and the
future were met." Martin Luther bravely defended his written
attacks on orthodox Catholic beliefs and denied the power of Rome to
determine what is right and wrong in matters of faith. By holding
steadfast to his interpretation of Scripture, Luther provided the
impetus for the Reformation, a reform movement that would divide Europe
into two regions, one Protestant and one Catholic, and that would set
the scene for religious wars that would continue for more than a
century, not ending until the Peace of Westphalia in 1648....[CONTINUED] |
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