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n spring 1518 Martin Luther assured Pope Leo X that he was a dutiful son of the Church. But was he still one? The 95 Theses were the perfect opening salvo: provocative, popular and, crucially, not obviously heretical. Archbishop Albrecht’s own theologians in Mainz refused to condemn them and passed the problem on to Rome. Then Luther did something new: he wrote the Sermon on Indulgences and Grace in punchy German for ordinary readers. It became an early bestseller and helped create a mass market for public debate in print. Tetzel’s Dominicans hit back with cou...
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Hello and welcome to the history of the Germans, episode 242, a drunken German lights a fire. I have heard some bad rumours about me, Most Holy Father. I understand that some good friends have made my name foul with you, claiming that I have tried to do away with the reputation and the power of the keys as well as of
the pontiff. I am accused a heretic, an apostate and a false believer, besides being branded with 600 additional, columnious epithets. My eyes are horrified and my ears amazed, but my innocent and pure conscience still
remains the bulwark of my confidence." So wrote Martin Luther to Pope Leo X in May 1518. Was he already heretic then? Are you sure his purgatory was won later?
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