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Although deeply political, economic, and social, the European Reformations of the sixteenth century were at heart religious disputes over core Christian theological issues. Denis Janz’s A Reformation Reader is unabashed in its generous selection of key theological and related texts from five distinct Reformation sites. Along with plenty on the late-medieval background, the Lutheran, Calvinist,...

24. To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation Concerning the Reform of the Christian Estate (1520) The year 1520 was a watershed for Luther. On June 15, Pope Leo X had issued his bull Exsurge Domine condemning Luther’s teaching. Luther’s To the Christian Nobility appeared in August, and The Babylonian Captivity of the Church, an attack on the sacramental system, was published in October. Then in early November came the pièce de résistance, his The Freedom of a Christian. Here, in To the Christian
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