Introduction Timeline Early Life Stance Schism Controversy Exile Council of Constance Legacy Persons/Events Medals Overview Bibliography
“Virtually every issue which Luther faced had been faced by his predecessors. . . . Only the watchword faith alone was missing, until wrought out of the experience of Luther as he was forced back upon the bed-rock of St. Paul.”
From “Pre-Reformation Reform Movements” by Frederick Wentz in The Encyclopedia of the Lutheran Church, Julius Bodensieck, ed.