The Project Gutenberg EBook of Luther, vol 1 of 6, by Hartmann Grisar This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. Title: Luther, vol 1 of 6 Author: Hartmann Grisar Editor: Cappadelta Luigi Translator: E. M. Lamond Release Date: May 19, 2015 [EBook #48995] Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LUTHER, VOL 1 OF 6 *** Produced by Giovanni Fini, David Garcia, Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: —Obvious print and punctuation errors were corrected. —The transcriber of this project created the book cover image using the title page of the original book. The image is placed in the public domain. LUTHER NIHIL OBSTAT Sti. Ludovici, die 26 Jan., 1913. F. G. HOLWECK, Censor. IMPRIMATUR Sti. Ludovici, die 30 Jan., 1913. JOHANNES J. GLENNON, Archiepiscopus Sti. Ludovici. LUTHER BY HARTMANN GRISAR, S. J. PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK AUTHORISED TRANSLATION FROM THE GERMAN BY E. M. LAMOND EDITED BY LUIGI CAPPADELTA VOLUME I LONDON KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER & CO., Ltd. BROADWAY HOUSE, 68-74 CARTER LANE, E.C. 1913 [i] [ii] [iii] [iv] BY THE SAME AUTHOR In Three Volumes. Royal 8vo, each 15s. net. HISTORY OF ROME AND THE POPES IN THE MIDDLE AGES Authorised English Translation, edited by Luigi Cappadelta. Profusely Illustrated. With maps, plans, and photographs of basilicas, mosaics, coins, and other memorials. “The present work might be described as a history of the mediæval Popes, with the history of the City of Rome and of its civilization as a background, the author’s design being so to combine the two stories as to produce a true picture of what Rome was in the Middle Ages.”—Author’s Preface. The three volumes now issued represent Volume I in the bulky German original. This portion of Father Grisar’s great enterprise is self-contained, and the history is brought down to the epoch of St. Gregory I. “A valuable and interesting book, well translated ... will, we are sure, be welcomed by all students and lovers of Rome, whether Catholic or not.”—The Tablet. “Dr. Grisar’s splendid history has long been the treasured possession of students of mediæval art and church history. We welcome its appearance in an English translation, which has been executed with scrupulous care and with every advantage of type, paper, and illustration.”—The Guardian. The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved EMENDATIONS AND ADDITIONS P. 9, line 12 ff. On the habit, cp. Paulus, “Joh. Hoffmeister,” 1891, p. 4. P. 13, note, read “Oergel.” P. 14, LINE 4 FROM BELOW. FOR “AUGUSTINIAN,” READ “COLLEAGUE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF Wittenberg.” P. 27, LINE 2 FROM BELOW TO P. 28, LINE 1. ELSEWHERE HE DOES SO QUITE CLEARLY, CP. “Tischreden” (Veit Dietrich), Weim. ed., 1, p. 61. P. 29, LINE 7 FROM BELOW. IT WAS NOT ACTUALLY A PAPAL BULL, BUT A DOCUMENT IN THE POPE’S name drawn up by Carvajal, the legate. P. 30, LINE 12. READ: “COCHLÆUS, WHO KNEW SOMETHING OF THE MATTER”; LINE 2 FROM BELOW, AFTER “TOLD US” ADD: “IN POINT OF FACT IT IS CLEAR THAT LUTHER’S JOURNEY FAILED IN ITS PURPOSE, AND THAT THE DISPUTE WAS FINALLY SETTLED ONLY IN MAY, 1512, AT THE COLOGNE CHAPTER”; NOTE 1, LAST line, omit “his” and add after date “p. 97.” P. 33, LINE 11. THE ACCOUNT OF THE INCIDENT AT THE SCALA SANTA MUST BE CORRECTED IN THE light of new information. See vol. vi., xlii., 2. P. 38, line 2 from below. Read: “October 18.” P. 39, LINE 21. FOR “HE HIMSELF ADMITS, ETC.,” READ: “YET HE SEEMS TO HAVE LOOKED ON HIS removal to Wittenberg as a ‘come down.’” See below, p. 127. P. 59, line 9 f. For “amazed replies” read “silly letters” (“litteras stupidas”). P. 72, line 18. Read: “captiosi et contentiosi.” P. 148, note 1, line 3. For “Luther” read “Lang.” P. 169, note 2, line 8. Read “longissime.” P. 178, note 3, line 3. For “1826” read “1864.” P. 184, line 14. For “Vogel” read “Vopel.” P. 199, last paragraph. Correct according to vol. vi., xlii., 4. P. 219, NOTE 5. ADD: “THAT, IN THE COMMENTARY ON ROMANS JUSTIFICATION IS PRODUCED BY [v] humility, is admitted by Wilh. Braun (‘Evang. Kirchenzeitung,’ 1911, No. 32, col. 506).” P. 297, note 1, line 6. After “conventualiter” add “per omnia.” P. 312, line 20. For “97” read “99.” P. 315, line 1. For “April 25” read “April 26.” P. 332, note 1, line 1. For “February 13” read “May 22.” P. 337, note 1. For “May” read “September.” P. 396. See the various texts in greater detail in vol. vi., xlii., 6. CONTENTS BIBLIOGRAPHY pages xv-xxv INTRODUCTION pages xxvii-xxxix CHAPTER I. COURSE OF STUDIES AND FIRST YEARS IN THE MONASTERY pages 3-60 1. LUTHER’S NOVITIATE AND EARLY LIFE. The new postulant at the gate of the Erfurt priory. Luther’s youth; his parents; early education; stay at Eisenach. Enters the University of Erfurt. Humanist friends. His novitiate. Troubles of conscience quieted by Staupitz, the Vicar of the Saxon Congregation of Augustinian Hermits. Luther’s professors pages 3-12 2. FIDELITY TO HIS NEW CALLING; HIS TEMPTATIONS. Luther’s theological course. Lectures and lecturers; Bible-study; first Mass. His father on his vocation; his father’s character. Luther’s inward troubles; falls into a fit in choir; Melanchthon on Luther’s attacks of fear. St. Bernard on certainty of salvation. Luther’s “own way” with his difficulties. He is sent to Wittenberg and back to Erfurt. Learned occupations. Luther’s assurance manifest in his earliest notes, the glosses on Peter Lombard; his glosses on Augustine; his fame; his virulent temper; his acquaintance with Hus. Oldecop, Dungersheim and Emser on his moral character in early days. Humanistic influences. Luther is chosen by the Observantines to represent them in Rome pages 12-29 3. THE JOURNEY TO ROME. Dissensions within the Congregation. Staupitz opposed by seven Observantine priories, on whose behalf Luther proceeds to Rome. The visit’s evil effect on the monk. His opinion of the Curia and the moral state of Rome. An episode at the Scala Santa. Luther’s belief in the Primacy not shaken by what he saw. On the Holy Mass; his petition to be secularised; perils of an Italian journey. Luther returns to Wittenberg and forsakes the cause of the Observantines pages 29-38 4. THE LITTLE WORLD OF WITTENBERG AND THE GREAT WORLD IN CHURCH AND STATE. Luther takes the doctorate; his first lectures; his surroundings at the University of Wittenberg; the professors; Humanism; schemes for reform; Mutian, Spalatin, Reuchlin, the “Letters of Obscure Men,” Erasmus. Luther’s road not that of his Humanist friends. Currents of thought in the age of discovery and awakened learning; decay of Church life; attempts at reform; abasement of clergy; abuses rampant everywhere; sad state of the Curia. Signs of the coming storm. Luther’s way prepared by the course of events. A curious academic dispute pages 38-60 CHAPTER II. HARBINGERS OF CHANGE pages 61-103 1. SOURCES OLD AND NEW. Peculiar difficulties of the problem. Process of Luther’s inward estrangement from the Church. The sources, particularly those recently brought to light. The marginal notes in Luther’s books now at Zwickau. His letters; earliest scriptural notes, i.e. the glosses and scholia; lectures on Scripture; sermons, 1515-1516; earliest printed works; his Disputations. Two stages of his development, the first till 1517, the second till the end of 1518 pages 61-67 2. LUTHER’S COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS (1513-15). DISPUTE WITH THE OBSERVANTINES AND THE “SELF-RIGHTEOUS.” His passionate opposition to the Observantines in his Order, and to “righteousness by works,” a presage of the coming change. He vents his ire on the “Little Saints” of the Order in his discourse at Gotha. On righteousness by grace and righteousness by works; on the force of concupiscence and original sin. No essential divergence from the Church’s belief and tradition to be found in the Commentary on the Psalms; reminiscences of Augustine; mystical trend; defects of Luther’s early work pages 67-78 3. EXCERPTS FROM THE OLDEST SERMONS. HIS ADVERSARIES. The sermons and their testimony to Luther’s scorn for the Observantines. Echoes of the controversy proceeding within the Order. The Leitzkau discourse and its mysticism pages 78-84 [vi] [vii] [viii] 4. PRELIMINARY REMARKS ON YOUNG LUTHER’S RELATIONS TO SCHOLASTICISM AND MYSTICISM. His early prejudice against Scholasticism, its psychological reason; his poor opinion of Aristotle and the Schoolmen. Martin Pollich’s misgivings. Luther’s leaning to mysticism, its cause. Esteem for Tauler and the “Theologia Deutsch.” His letter to G. Leiffer pages 84-88 5. EXCERPTS FROM THE EARLIEST LETTERS. Signs of a change in Luther’s letter to G. Spenlein; self-despair and trust in Christ. To Johann Lang on a work wrongly ascribed to St. Augustine and on his difficulties with his colleagues at Wittenberg. To Spalatin on Erasmus; his dislike of everything savouring of Pelagianism pages 88-93 6. THE THEOLOGICAL GOAL. The first shaping of Luther’s heretical views, in the Commentary on Romans. Imputation of Christ’s righteousness; uncertainty of justification; original sin remains after baptism, being identical with concupiscence; impossibility of fulfilling the law without justification; absence of all human freedom for good; sinful character of natural virtue; all “venial” sins really mortal; no such thing as merit; predestination pages 93-103 CHAPTER III. THE STARTING-POINT pages 104-129 1. FORMER INACCURATE VIEWS. The starting-point not simply the desire to reform the Church; nor mere antipathy to the Dominicans. Hus’s influence merely secondary. Luther’s own account of his search for a “merciful God” not to be trusted any more than his later descriptions of his life as a monk pages 104-110 2. WHETHER EVIL CONCUPISCENCE IS IRRESISTIBLE? Luther’s belief in its irresistibility not to be alleged as a proof of his moral perversity. Traces of the belief early noticeable in him; he demands that people should nevertheless strive against concupiscence with the weapons of the spirit; concupiscence ineradicable, identical with original sin, and actually sinful. Luther not a determinist from the beginning. His pseudo-mysticism scarcely reconcilable with his supposed moral perversity pages 110-117 3. THE REAL STARTING-POINT AND THE CO-OPERATING FACTORS. Luther’s new opinions grounded on his antipathy to good works; hence his belief in the incapacity of man for good. Other factors; his character, his self-confidence and combativeness; his anger with the formalism prevalent in his day; his fear of eternal reprobation; his inadequate knowledge of the real doctrine of the Church; his hasty promotion pages 117-129 CHAPTER IV. “I AM OF OCCAM’S PARTY” pages 130-165 1. A CLOSER EXAMINATION OF LUTHER’S THEOLOGICAL TRAINING. Not trained in the best school of Scholasticism. His Occamist education. Positive and negative influence of Occamism on Luther pages 130-133 2. NEGATIVE INFLUENCE OF THE OCCAMIST SCHOOL ON LUTHER. Luther’s criticism of Occam; he abandons certain views of the Occamists and flies to the opposite extreme; offended by their neglect of Scripture and by the subtlety of their philosophy; hence he comes to oppose Aristotelianism and the Scholastics generally. Occamistic exaggeration of man’s powers leads him ex opposito to underrate the same. Negative influence of Occamism on Luther’s teaching regarding original sin. Gabriel Biel on original sin; the keeping of the commandments; the love of God; whether man can merit grace; Gregory of Rimini; the principle: “Facienti quod est in se Deus non denegat gratiam”; the deficiencies of the Occamists laid at the door of Scholasticism. Three answers to the question how Luther failed to perceive that he was forsaking the Church’s doctrine. His denial of natural righteousness, and his ignorance of the true scholastic teaching on the point; misunderstands his own masters. His interpretation of the words, “Without me ye can do nothing.” His rejection of actual grace pages 133-154 3. POSITIVE INFLUENCE OF OCCAMISM. [ix] Occamist “acceptation” and Lutheran “imputation.” Luther assails the habit of supernatural grace and replaces the doctrine of an essential order of things by the arbitrary pactum Dei. Divorce of faith and reason. Feeling and religious experience. Predestination; transubstantiation. Luther’s anti-Thomism, his combativeness and loquacity. Other alleged influences, viz. Gallicanism, ultra-realism, Wiclifism, and Neo-Platonism pages 155-165 CHAPTER V. THE ROCKS OF FALSE MYSTICISM pages 166-183 1. TAULER AND LUTHER. Tauler’s orthodox doctrine distorted by Luther to serve his purpose. Passivity in the hands of God explained as the absence of all effort. Luther’s application of Tauler’s teaching to his own states of anxiety. His knowledge of Tauler; annotations to Tauler’s sermons; the German mystics; a “return to nothingness” the supreme aim of the Christian pages 166-174 2. EFFECT OF MYSTICISM ON LUTHER. Advantages of its study outweighed by disadvantage. Why Luther failed to become a true mystic. Specimens of his mystic utterances. His edition of the “Theologia Deutsch”; attitude to pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, St. Bernard and Gerson; an excerpt from his “Operationes in psalmos” pages 175-183 CHAPTER VI. THE CHANGE OF 1515 IN THE LIGHT OF THE COMMENTARY ON ROMANS (1515-16) pages 184-261 1. THE NEW PUBLICATIONS. Denifle the first to utilise the Commentary on Romans. Ficker’s recent edition of the original. General remarks on the Commentary. Aim of St. Paul according to Luther pages 184-187 2. GLOOMY VIEWS REGARDING GOD AND PREDESTINATION. Luther’s “more profound theology” and unconditional predestination to hell; God’s will that the wicked be damned. God to be approached in fear and despair, not with works and in the hope of reward. The mystic on resignation to hell. Man’s will and his salvation entirely in God’s hands. Objections: Is it not God’s will that all be saved? Why impose commandments which the will is not free to perform? Unperceived inconsistencies pages 187-197 3. THE FIGHT AGAINST “HOLINESS-BY-WORKS” AND THE OBSERVANTINES IN THE COMMENTARY ON ROMANS. Luther’s aversion to works and observances. His rude description of the “Observants” and “Justiciaries.” The very word “righteousness” a cause of vexation pages 197-202 4. ATTACK ON PREDISPOSITION TO GOOD AND ON FREE WILL. Human nature entirely spoiled by original sin. Being unable to fulfil the command “Non concupisces,” we are ever sinning mortally. Uncertainty of salvation; the will not free for good. Interpretation of Rom. viii. 2 f. Against Scholasticism. In penance and confession no removal (ablatio) of sin pages 202-209 5. LUTHER RUDELY SETS ASIDE THE OLDER DOCTRINE OF VIRTUE AND SIN. The habit of sanctifying grace; “cursed be the word ‘formatum charitate’”; sin coexistent with grace in the good man; Augustine on concupiscence. “Nothing is of its own nature good or bad”; the Occamist acceptation-theory against the “Aristotelian” definition of virtue and the scholastic doctrine that virtues and vices are qualities of the soul pages 209-213 6. PREPARATION FOR JUSTIFICATION. Christ’s grace does all, and yet man disposes himself for justification. Man’s self-culture. Inconsistencies explained by reminiscences of his early Catholic training pages 213-214 7. APPROPRIATION OF THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST BY HUMILITY—NEITHER “FAITH ONLY” NOR ASSURANCE OF SALVATION. Imputation applied to justification. Another’s righteousness is imputed to us and becomes ours; sin remains, but is no longer accounted; our inability to know whether Christ’s righteousness has been imputed to us. Advantage of fear. “He who renounces his own self and willingly faces death and damnation” is truly humble, and in such humility is safety. Faith not yet substituted for humility. Passivity again emphasized pages 214-222 [x] [xi] 8. SUBJECTIVISM AND CHURCH AUTHORITY. STORM AND STRESS. The back place already taken in Luther’s mind by the Church and her teaching-office; his preference for a theology of his own invention. Our duty of not judging Luther by the later Tridentine decrees. His Catholic sentiments on the hierarchy; denounces abuses whilst respecting the rights of the Roman Church; desiderates a reduction of festivals; reproves Bishops for insisting on their rights instead of rejoicing to see them infringed. On listening to the inner voice pages 223-230 9. THE MYSTIC IN THE COMMENTARY ON ROMANS. Luther’s misapprehension of Tauler and other mystics clearly proved in the Commentary. Quietism. The “Spark in the Soul.” The “Theology of the Cross.” The “Night of the Soul.” Readiness for hell the joy of the truly wise; Christ and Paul the Apostle, two instances of such readiness pages 230-240 10. THE COMMENTARY ON ROMANS AS A WORK OF RELIGION AND LEARNING. Its witness to the unsettled state of the writer’s mind. Texts and commentaries utilised; neglect of Aquinas’s Commentary; the author’s style; obscenity and paradox; a tilt at the philosophers; the character of the work rather spoilt by unnecessary polemics. Appeal to Augustine. Misuse of theological terms. “The word of God is every word which proceeds from the mouth of a good man.” Contradiction a criterion of truth. All the prophets against observances. Unconscious self-contradiction on the subject of freedom. Whether any progress is apparent in the course of the Commentary. Comparison of Luther’s public utterances with those in the Commentary. Some excerpts from the Commentary on Hebrews pages 241-261 CHAPTER VII. SOME PARTICULARS WITH REGARD TO THE OUTWARD CIRCUMSTANCES AND INWARD LIFE OF LUTHER AT THE TIME OF THE CRISIS pages 262-302 1. LUTHER AS SUPERIOR OF ELEVEN AUGUSTINIAN HOUSES. His election as Rural Vicar, 1516; his discourse on the Little Saints delivered at the Chapter; influence of his administration; extracts from his correspondence; his quick despatch of business pages 262-268 2. THE MONK OF LIBERAL VIEWS AND INDEPENDENT ACTION. His ideal of humility. On vows. Prejudice against observances. Blames formalism prevalent in the Church generally and in the monasteries. Paltz and Tauler on this subject. Overwork leads Luther to neglect his spiritual duties; Mass and Divine Office; his final abandonment of the Breviary. His outward appearance; his quarrelsomeness pages 268-280 3. LUTHER’S ULTRA-SPIRITUALISM AND CALLS FOR REFORM. IS SELF-IMPROVEMENT POSSIBLE? PENANCE. His pessimism; the whole world sunk in corruption. Opinion of theologians. Justifiable criticism. On the clergy; proposes placing the administration of all temporalities in the hands of the Princes. On Indulgences. His familiarity with the Elector of Saxony. On the dreadful state of Rome. The prevalence of Pelagianism; three deadly vices; on his own temptations; how people fall and rise again; on diabolical terrors; on making the best of things and reconciling ourselves to remaining in sin; his inability to understand the nature of contrition; denial that perfect contrition exists; his mysticism averse to the motive of fear or of heavenly recompense; misrepresentation of the Church’s doctrine concerning attrition. Ascribes his view of penance to Staupitz; the part of Staupitz in the downfall of the Congregation. Möhler and Neander on Luther’s resemblance to Marcion the Gnostic. Paradoxical character of the monk pages 280-302 CHAPTER VIII. THE COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS. FIRST DISPUTATIONS AND FIRST TRIUMPHS pages 303-326 1. ”THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE GOSPEL BUSINESS.” EXPOSITION OF THE EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS (1516-17). Melanchthon and Mathesius on the birth of the “Evangel.” Luther’s first disciples, Carlstadt, Amsdorf, etc. His appeals to St. Augustine. The Commentary on Galatians begins in 1516. Luther’s progress in the light of this and the longer Commentary published later pages 303-310 [xii] 2. DISPUTATIONS ON MAN’S POWERS AND AGAINST SCHOLASTICISM (1516-17). Bernhardi’s Disputation in 1516 presided over by Luther; “Man sins in spite of every effort.” Luther to Lang on the scandal of the “Gabrielists.” Günther’s Disputation in 1517; specimens of the theses defended; Luther circulates them widely pages 310-314 3. DISPUTATION AT HEIDELBERG ON FAITH AND GRACE. OTHER PUBLIC UTTERANCES. The Heidelberg Chapter. Leonard Beyer defends Luther’s theses in the presence of Bucer and other future adherents of the cause. The theses and their demonstration; Grace not to be obtained by works; the motive of fear; free will a mere name. A Wittenberg Disputation in 1518, “For the Quieting of Anxious Consciences.” The three great Disputations described by Luther as “Initium negocii evangelici.” Luther to Trutfetter on his aims pages 315-321 4. ATTITUDE TO THE CHURCH. Luther continues to acknowledge the doctrinal office of the Church. The principle of private interpretation of Scripture not yet enunciated. Explanation of Luther’s inconsistency in conduct; on obedience to the Church; traces all heresies back to pride; his correct description of Indulgences in 1516, his regret at their abuse pages 321-326 CHAPTER IX. THE INDULGENCE-THESES OF 1517 AND THEIR AFTER-EFFECTS pages 327-373 1. TETZEL’S PREACHING OF THE INDULGENCE; THE 95 THESES. The St. Peter’s Indulgence and its preaching; Luther’s information regarding it; his sermon before the Elector. The 95 theses nailed to the door of the Castle Church; their contents; the excitement caused; Augustinians refrain from any measure against the author; the Heidelberg Chapter; the “Resolutions”; Dominicans take up the challenge. Fables regarding Luther and Tetzel; Tetzel’s private life; charges brought against him by Luther and Miltitz; the real Tetzel; Luther’s statement that he did not know “what an Indulgence was.” Luther’s letter to Tetzel on his death-bed pages 327-347 2. THE COLLECTION FOR ST. PETER’S IN HISTORY AND LEGEND. The Indulgence granted on behalf of the building fund; new sources of information; Albert of Brandenburg obtains the See of Mayence; his payments to Rome; the Indulgence granted him for his indemnification; arrangements made for its preaching; the pecuniary result a failure pages 347-355 3. THE TRIAL AT AUGSBURG (1518). The summons. Luther before Cardinal Cajetan at Augsburg; Letters written from Augsburg; refuses to recant; his flight; his appeal to a General Council. Popular works on the Penitential Psalms, the Our Father, and the Ten Commandments pages 355-362 4. THE DISPUTATION AT LEIPZIG, 1519. MILTITZ. QUESTIONABLE REPORTS. Circumstances of the Disputation. Luther’s dissatisfaction with the result. Unfortunate attempts of Miltitz to smooth things down. Luther’s justification of his polemics. Stories of his doings and sayings at Dresden; his sermon before the Court; Emser’s reports of certain utterances pages 362-373 CHAPTER X. LUTHER’S PROGRESS IN THE NEW TEACHING pages 374-404 1. THE SECOND STAGE OF HIS DEVELOPMENT: ASSURANCE OF SALVATION. In the first stage assurance of salvation through faith alone was yet unknown to him. The Catholic doctrine on this subject. How Luther reached his doctrine by the path of despair; the several steps of his progress from 1516 onwards; the Resolutions; the “pangs of Hell”; the interview with Cajetan; first clear trace of the doctrine in his works written in 1519 pages 374-388 2. THE DISCOVERY IN THE MONASTERY TOWER, 1518-19. The information contained in Luther’s later Præfatio to be trusted in the main; other testimonies; his state at the time one of great anxiety; his terror of God’s justice. The Gate of Paradise suddenly opened by the text: “The just man liveth by faith”; where this revelation was vouchsafed: In the “cloaca” on the tower; the revelation referred by Luther to the Holy Ghost; its importance and connection with Luther’s mysticism pages 388-400 3. LEGENDS. STORM-SIGNALS. [xiii] [xiv] Luther’s faulty recollection in later life responsible for the rise of legends regarding his discovery. His statement that he was the first to interpret Romans i. 17 as speaking of the justice by which God makes us just. His “discovery” confirms him in his attitude towards Rome; the Pope a more dangerous foe of the German nation than the Turk. The legend that the German knights and Humanists were responsible for Luther’s opposition to Rome pages 400-404 BIBLIOGRAPHY Note.—The following is an alphabetical list of the books, etc., referred to in an abbreviated form in the course of our work, the title under which they are quoted in each case figuring first. For the Bibliography of Luther generally, we may refer to the following: E. G. Vogel, “Bibliographia Lutheri,” Halle, 1851; I. A. Fabricius, “Centifolium Lutheranum,” 2 parts, Hamburg, 1728-1730; Wm. Maurenbrecher, “Studien und Skizzen,” Leipzig, 1874, p. 205 ff. (a good list of the studies on Luther and his work). The articles on Luther in the “Deutsche Biographie,” in the Catholic “Kirchenlexikon” (2nd ed.), and the Protestant “Realenzyklopädie für Theologie,” etc., also provide more or less detailed bibliographies. So also do W. Möller, “Lehrbuch der Kirchengeschichte,” vol. 3, ed. by Kawerau (3rd ed., particularly p. 4 ff.); Hergenröther, “Lehrbuch der Kirchengeschichte,” vol. 3, 3rd ed., by J. P. Kirsch (particularly p. 4 ff.); Janssen-Pastor, “Geschichte des deutschen Volkes,” etc. (in the lists at the commencement of each vol., particularly vols. ii. and iii.). The bibliographical data added by various writers in the prefaces to the various works of Luther in the new Weimar complete edition are not only copious but also often quite reliable, for instance, those on the German Bible. “ANALECTA LUTHERANA, BRIEFE UND AKTENSTÜCKE ZUR GESCHICHTE LUTHERS, ZUGLEICH EIN SUPPLEMENT ZU DEN BISHERIGEN SAMMLUNGEN SEINES BRIEFWECHSELS,” ED. BY TH. KOLDE, Gotha, 1883. “Analecta Lutherana et Melanchthoniana,” see Mathesius, “Aufzeichnungen.” “ARCHIV FÜR REFORMATIONSGESCHICHTE. TEXTE UND UNTERSUCHUNGEN. IN VERBINDUNG MIT DEM VEREIN FÜR REFORMATIONSGESCHICHTE,” ED. W. FRIEDENSBURG. BERLIN, LATER LEIPZIG, 1903- 1904 ff. BALAN, P., “MONUMENTA REFORMATIONIS LUTHERANÆ EX TABULARIIS S. SEDIS SECRETIS, 1521-1525,” Ratisbonæ, 1883, 1884. Barge, H., “Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt,” 2 vols., Leipzig, 1905. Beatus Rhenanus, see Correspondence. Berger, A., “Martin Luther in kulturgeschichtlicher Darstellung.” 2 vols., Berlin, 1895-1898. Bezold, F. von, “Geschichte der deutschen Reformation,” Berlin, 1890. “Bibliothek des Kgl. Preussischen Historischen Instituts in Rom,” Rome, 1905 ff. Blaurer, see Correspondence. BÖHMER, H., “LUTHER IM LICHTE DER NEUEREN FORSCHUNG” (FROM “NATUR UND GEISTESWELT,” NO. 113), Leipzig, 1906, 2nd ed., 1910. BRANDENBURG, E., “LUTHERS ANSCHAUUNG VON STAAT UND GESELLSCHAFT” (SCHRIFTEN DES VEREINS für Reformationsgeschichte), Hft. 70, Halle, 1901. Braun, W., “Die Bedeutung der Concupiscenz in Luthers Leben und Lehre,” Berlin, 1908. “Briefe,” see Letters. “Briefwechsel,” see Correspondence. BRIEGER, TH., “ALEANDER UND LUTHER. DIE VERVOLLSTÄNDIGTEN ALEANDER-DEPESCHEN NEBST Untersuchungen über den Wormser Reichstag,” I, Gotha, 1884. BURKHARDT, C. A., “GESCHICHTE DER SÄCHSISCHEN KIRCHEN—UND SCHULVISITATIONEN VON 1524- 1545,” Leipzig, 1879. CALVINI, I., “OPERA QUÆ SUPERSUNT OMNIA, EDIDERUNT G. BRAUN, E. CUNITZ, E. REUSS,” 59 VOL. (29-87 in the “Corpus Reformatorum”), Brunsvigæ, 1863-1900. CARDAUNS, L., “ZUR GESCHICHTE DER KIRCHLICHEN UNIONS—UND REFORMBESTREBUNGEN VON 1538- 1542” (“BIBLIOTHEK DES KGL. PREUSS. HISTORISCHEN INSTITUTS IN ROM,” VOL. 5), ROME, 1910. —see “Nuntiaturberichte.” [xv] [xvi] COCHLÆUS, I., “COMMENTARIA DE ACTIS ET SCRIPTIS M. LUTHERI ... 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