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Ep. 244: Martin Luther #6 - The Leipzig Disputation
In June and July 1519, Martin Luther finally got the open debate he had been demanding, and it went badly for him. Johannes Eck, the formidable Ingolstadt theologian, used a quarrel with Luther's colleague Andreas Karlstadt to lure Luther to Leipzig, onto the territory of Duke George of Saxony. This episode follows how the debate came about despite Rome's efforts to prevent it, the theatrics of the Wittenbergers' arrival, and how Eck steered Luther away from indulgences and towards papal authority. Pushed into a corner, Luther declared that some of Jan Hus's condemned teachings were "Christian and evangelical"...
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Hello, hello and welcome to the history of the Germans, episode 244, the Leipzig Disputation – Free at Last. The long-awaited debate with Johannes Eck, which had been brewing since the spring of 1518, was finally arranged for June 1519 at Leipzig, in the territory of Duke George
of Saxony. The meeting was another of the dramatic intellectual set-pieces which pushed the Reformation forward and was a decisive step in the movement reaching a wider public beyond an academic audience. But while it saw the emergence of a pro-Lutter party, it also gave rise to the beginnings
of a coalition against him. Moreover, it marked yet a further radicalization of Lutter's theology. Indeed, the older Lutter would date his Reformation breakthrough to around this time. For Lutter, there was no going back after Leipzig."
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