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Martin Luther: Shaping and Defining the Reformation, 1521–1532 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Brecht here describes the years in which the distinctive aspects of the Reformation took shape. During this time four difficult conflicts—the Peasants’ War, the interchange between Luther and Erasmus, debates on the Lord’s Supper, and the rise of Anabaptist groups—strengthened the need to fashion new orders for governing the church and the need to develop new patterns for worship and the...

eighteen buckets of wine, about 1,200 liters. It seems that Katy remonstrated with him about this in her letters.12 Even into June he was still occasionally complaining. At the end of the month, thanks to the intercessions of his brethren in Augsburg, he felt well again in body, but he was anticipating other attacks of the devil, who was his sworn mortal enemy: “All right, if he devours me, he shall devour a laxative (God willing) which will make his bowels and anus too tight for him. Do you want
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