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Original publication date: November, 1520.
After the Leipzig Debate Luther returned to Wittenberg, where he resumed his heaven responsibilities and at the same time devoted a large amount of time to study and writing. The list of his publications alone was phenomenal. In addition to writing much devotional literature, often at the request of the elector and his court, he produced sermons, lectures, and polemical tracts. Within six months, in 1520, he published three important Reformation tracts which clarified his new evangelical theology for his ever-increasing following.
In The Address to the German Nobility, published August 18, he attacked the authority of the papacy over secular rulers, denied the pope was the final interpreter of Scripture, assailed the corruption of the Roman Curia, enunciated his important doctrine of the universal priesthood of believers, and called for a drastic reform of the church.
In The Babylonian Captivity of the Church, published October 6, he attacked the sacramental systems of the church by means of which the ecclesiastical hierarchy had gained control over all Christians.
The Freedom of a Christian, published in early November, differed from the preceding two pamphlets in that it was written in a conciliatory spirit. Yet it contained a positive and unequivocal statement of Luther's evangelical theology as applied to Christian life.
From Luther's Works, Volume 31, Career of the Reformer I, American Edition, Muhlenberg Press/Philadelphia, ©1957
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