Martin Luther by Martin Luther

Author:Martin Luther [Dillenberger, Edited by John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian Theology, Read
ISBN: 9780307803351
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2011-08-03T04:00:00+00:00

1 Reprinted by permission of the publisher from Luther’s Works, volume 51, Sermons: 1, edited and translated by John W. Doberstein (Philadelphia: Muhlenberg Press, 1959), pp. 303–12.

2 The original repeats this in Latin: contra Papam, qui fecit ex Ecclesia cloacam, and also includes an untranslatable play on words: Decret and Secret (privy).

THE PAGAN SERVITUDE

OF THE CHURCH1

[The Pagan Servitude of the Church, more commonly known as The Babylonian Captivity of the Church, belongs to the series of pivotal writings of 1520. Chief among the background factors precipitating Luther’s writing are undoubtedly the withholding of the cup in the Mass from the laity and the fact that he had been excommunicated. In that setting, Luther addresses himself to the total sacramental understanding of the Roman Church and, in contrast, develops a Biblical and Reformation conception of the sacraments and of the Church. In reading this document, it is well to remember that it was written on the eve of developments which led to the organization of Reformation churches. It represents a theological viewpoint which made the Reformation necessary.]

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