On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church
'On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church' Summary
The book was circulating in print not quite a week when the papal bull against Luther arrived in Wittenberg in October 1520.The bull and the book were being prepared simultaneously.
Luther accuses the Roman church and the papacy of keeping the church in captivity, equating Rome with the biblical Babylon that exiled the Israelites from their homeland, holding them captive in Babylon. According to Luther, the pope was holding the church in captivity through the use of the sacramental system and Rome's theology.
In 1521 Martin Luther was requested to either confess or recant his books, including his treatise The Babylonian Captivity of the Church. The book was a critique of the medieval Roman church's system of sacraments. The treatise is a summary of Luther's thinking on the sacraments and it is still the confessional Lutheran relationship to the number of sacraments.
Book Details
Language
EnglishOriginal Language
German, LatinPublished In
1520Author
Martin Luther
Holy Roman Empire
Martin Luther was a German professor of theology, priest, author, composer, Augustinian monk, and a seminal figure in the Reformation. Luther was ordained to the priesthood in 1507. He came to reject...
More on Martin LutherDownload eBooks
Listen/Download Audiobook
- Select Speed
Related books
On Adulterous Marriages by Saint Augustine of Hippo
It explores the controversial issue of marriage and adultery from a moral and religious perspective. Augustine's writing style is characterized by it...
The Birth, Baptism, Temptation, and Early Ministry of Jesus Christ by John Chrysostom
Homilies 1 - 14 of Saint John Chrysostom's commentary on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew, which include the wondrous birth, baptism, temptation,...
Of Holy Virginity by Saint Augustine of Hippo
A powerful and moving defense of the Christian ideal of virginity. Of Holy Virginity is a treatise by Saint Augustine of Hippo, one of the most influ...
Acres of Diamonds by Russell Herman Conwell
Text of famous inspirational lecture and biography of Russell Conwell, a Baptist minister and Temple University Founder.
The Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ by Anne Catherine Emmerich
Anne Catherine Emmerich was a German Augustinian nun who had visions about Christ's life and death. This book relates her visions regarding the Blesse...
Opticks by Isaac Newton
Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light is a book by English natural philosopher Isaac Newton that was...
God Goes to Murderer's Row by M. Raymond
The Hound of Heaven stalks the death house in pursuit of the soul of a modern Dismas in this true story of a doomed criminal who found God in the soli...
The Everlasting Man by Gilbert K. Chesterton
The book is divided in half, into humans (and human nature, and primarily human history pre-Christ, and also pre-history because that is a paradox and...
Against Celsus Book 5 by Origen of Alexandria
Against Celsus preserved entirely in Greek, is a major apologetics work by the Church Father Origen of Alexandria, written in around 248 AD, counterin...
The History of the Church of Christ: Century III by Joseph Milner
The book covers the history of Christianity in the third century AD, a period marked by significant developments and controversies within the Church....
Reviews for On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church
No reviews posted or approved, yet...