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September 21st: Commemorating Luther’s Translation
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]September 21, 1522: Luther’s Translation of the NT Published Rome’s Censure of Scripture The council of Trent (1545-1563), in its 4th session, stated: “But if any one receive not, as sacred and canonical, the said books entire with all their parts, as they have been used to be read in the Catholic Church, and…
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September 25th: The Peace of Augsburg
As Roland Bainton writes in Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, “In the sixteenth century people did not commonly agree to differ.”[1] Political and religious disagreements often ended in violence. Remember Luther going into hiding at the Wartburg castle? It wasn’t because he was worried that his Scriptural interpretation would be questioned, or that there would…
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October 11 – Zwingli: The Warrior of the Reformation
At the same time as Luther was stirring the pot in Germany, another young man was coming to very similar conclusions independently! His name was Ulrich Zwingli, and he was an avid reader of Erasmus. Reading Erasmus convinced him that he was not to look to the Virgin Mary or the saints for salvation, but…
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“Such a Candle as Will Never Be Put Out”: The Martyrdom of Bishops Ridley and Latimer
This post is an excerpt from Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (Ed. Forbush) Bishop Ridley and Bishop Latimer These reverend prelates suffered October 16, 1555, at Oxford, on the same day Wolsey and Pygot perished at Ely. Pillars of the Church and accomplished ornaments of human nature, they were the admiration of the realm, amiably conspicuous…
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