...CTION The primary importance of this treatise for the present-day reader of Luther lies in its courageous interpretation of the sacraments. But it i... ... interpretation of the sacraments. But it is important also for its place in Luther’s progressive assault upon the total position of the Romans. In A... ...otal position of the Romans. In An Open Letter to the Christian Nobility 1 Luther demolished the three walls behind which Rome sat entrenched in her... ...power. Now in The Babylonian Captivity of the Church he enters and takes her central stronghold and sanctuary—the sacramental system by which she acc... ...m Jerusalem into captivity under the tyranny of the Babylonian Empire, so in Europe the Christians have been carried away from the Scriptures and mad... ... controversial works, and died in 1528. The title of the tract is Revocatio Martini Lutheri Augustiniani ad sanctam sedem [The Recantation of the Au... ...i Lutheri Augustiniani ad sanctam sedem [The Recantation of the Augustinian Martin Luther before the Holy See]. Its date is November 22, 1519, at Cre... ...hird came from the facile pen of Bertram Lee Woolf (Reformation Writings of Martin Luther: Vol. I, The Basis of the Protestant Reformation) and was ... ...airvaux (1090–1153) founded 163 Cistercian monasteries in different parts of Europe, which by his death had increased in number to 343. Francis of As...

...Martin Luther goes through the seven sacraments of the medieval Catholic Church with his interpretation of the Bible. He teaches his opinions on the different pratices taken place within the Catholic Church and what they sho...