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The Babylonian Captivity of the Church, 1520: The Annotated Luther Study Edition

The Babylonian Captivity of the Church, 1520: The Annotated Luther Study Edition

Herrmann, Erik H.
Robinson, Paul W.

Paperback

Series: Annotated Luther, Book 3

General Christianity

ISBN10: 1506413471
ISBN13: 9781506413471
Publisher: Fortress Pr
Published: Jun 15 2016
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.20 Width: 7.40 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

In his The Babylonian Captivity of the Church, Martin Luther set forth a reconsideration of the sacramental Christian life that centered on the word. His thesis is that the papacy had distorted the sacraments with its own traditions and regulations, transforming them into a system of control and coercion. The evangelical liberty of the sacramental promises had been replaced by a papal absolutism which, like a feudal lordship, claimed its own jurisdictional liberties and privileges over the totality of Christian life through a sacramental system that spanned birth to death. Yet Luther does not replace one tyranny for another; his argument for a return to the biblical understanding of the sacraments is moderated by a consideration of traditions and external practices in relation to their effects on the individual conscience and faith.

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