The freedom of a Christian, 1520 / Timothy J. Wengert.
Material type: TextSeries: Luther, Martin, Works ; Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Fortress Press, ©2016Description: xiii , approximately 72 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 150641351X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9781506413518 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Tractatus de libertate Christiana. English
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Print book for loan | Krauth Memorial Branch Philadelphia General Collection | BR331.E5 2015 v.1b | 1 | Available | 31794002785997 | ||
Print book for loan | Lineberger Memorial Library Southern Circulating Collection (Main & Upper Levels) | BR331.E5 2015 v.1b | Available | 35898001716949 | |||
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Print book for loan | Wentz Memorial Branch Gettysburg General Collection (Lower Level) | BR331.E5 2015 v.1b | 1 | Available | 31826003521714 | ||
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Includes bibliographical references.
Excerpted from The Annotated Luther, Volume 1, The Roots of Reform (Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 2015), Timothy J. Wengert, volume editor (title page verso). Pagination: pages 467-539.
Timothy J. Wengert skillfully provides a clear understanding of the historical context from which the treatise The Freedom of a Christian and his accompanying Letter to Pope Leo X arose. As controversy concerning his writings grew, Luther was instructed to write a reconciliation-minded letter to Pope Leo X (1475-1521). To this letter he appended a nonpolemical tract describing the heart of his beliefs, The Freedom of a Christian. Luther's Latin version added an introduction and a lengthy appendix not found in the German edition. The two editions arose out of the different audiences for them: the one addressed to theologians, clerics, and church leaders (for whom Latin was the common language), and one addressed to the German-speaking public, which included the nobility, townsfolk, many from the lesser clergy, and others who could read (or have Luther's writings read to them). (Publisher)