November 28, 1520: The Articles of Antichrist

Luther: In Real Time

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, History

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🗓️ 28 November 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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If Martin Luther is right about the Bible's message of salvation, then the Roman Catholic Church must reform itself--radically. Today, the monk's books are being burned in the streets, but this only drives Luther to write more boldly in defense of the gospel.

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0:00.0	It's November the 28th, 1520 in the Imperial City of Mainz, Germany. Two men are attempting to light a fire. It's cold, but that's not the reason.
0:18.9	They are trying to publicly burn a pile of books by Martin Luther and a hostile crowd has gathered around them.
0:29.8	One of the men, Alliander, is a colleague of Johann Ek, the theologian who declared
0:34.4	Luther to be a heretic. The other man, the man with the burning torch, hesitates for a
0:40.1	moment. Turning to the crowd crowd he speaks directly to them.
0:45.0	Do you not think these groups should be burnt?
0:48.0	Nine!
0:49.0	Nine!
0:50.0	Nine!
0:51.0	And that's us! The man extinguishes his torch.
0:55.0	Some of the angry crowd throw stones.
1:00.0	But the two men managed to escape, and the books remain unburned, at least for today.
1:09.6	It doesn't always play out like this.
1:12.1	Two weeks earlier, there had been a massive
1:14.0	bonfire of Luther's books just a hundred miles away in Cologne. A poet
1:21.2	called Ulrich von Hutton had written about it.
1:24.0	Oh God, Luther's books they burn.
1:29.0	Thy godly truth is slain in turn.
1:34.0	Pardon in advance is sold, and heaven marketed for gold.
1:40.0	Meanwhile in Vittenberg, Luther had been writing again in his own defense, and tomorrow we'll see
1:47.6	the publication of an assertion of all the articles wrongly condemned in the Roman bull.
1:55.0	In it, Luther explicitly refutes the content of the papal bull that was delivered to him on October the 10th.
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