“[If you] continue to persist in your notorious errors and heresies, as you have begun to do, there is no doubt that all memory of you will be wiped out.”
I agree that the story of Luther, Frederick, and the Pope is a good example of how multiple authority centers/levels are necessary to protect individuals. What is sad is that it was a civil magistrate protecting the life of a monk from ecclesiastical authority, and not the other way around.
I, too, like Jan Hus and John Wycliffe. Two of my favorite characters in church history. Their courage to stand for what God has said in the Bible versus what religious men have claimed for themselves is a great example for us to follow today. Luther might not have started there but he ended up believing Sola scriptura, Sola Christus, Sola fide, Sola gratia, Soli Deo gloria.
I agree that the story of Luther, Frederick, and the Pope is a good example of how multiple authority centers/levels are necessary to protect individuals. What is sad is that it was a civil magistrate protecting the life of a monk from ecclesiastical authority, and not the other way around.
I, too, like Jan Hus and John Wycliffe. Two of my favorite characters in church history. Their courage to stand for what God has said in the Bible versus what religious men have claimed for themselves is a great example for us to follow today. Luther might not have started there but he ended up believing Sola scriptura, Sola Christus, Sola fide, Sola gratia, Soli Deo gloria.
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