History of the Christian Church

nercongreg. und Joh. v. Staupitz. Gotha, 1879. H. Hering, die Mystik Luthers, Leipz., 1879. F. W. Kampschulte, die Univ. Erfurt, 2 vols., Trier 1858-186o. Oergel, Beitr. z. Gesch. des Erf. Humanismus, in Mitth. d. Ver. f. d. Gesch. u. Alterthumskunde von Erf. XV. O. Schmidt, Luthers Bekanntsch. mil den Klassikern, Leipz., 1883. For Staupitz : his Opera, ed. Knaake I. Potsdam, 1867; add Ritschl in JdTh. 1869, 555 ff. Grimm in ZhTh 7, 2, 58 ff.; N. Paulus in JGG XII 3o9 ff., 773 ff.; the same in JGG XII. 68 ff. on the Journey to Rome. Dieckhoff, Luthers Lchre in ihrer ersten Gestalt, Rostock, 1887. Loops, DG8 1893, pp. 344 ff. F. Nitzsch, L. u. Arist., Kiel, 1883. F. Bahlow, L.s Stellung z. Philos., Berl., 1891. The German Reformation commences with the course of the inner development of a personality, which in itself fully tested the religious and ecclesiastical training for Catholic piety, but, in striving after the assurance of salvation on the path of religious knowledge, attained to a new understanding of the Gospel, the practical consequences of which were bound to bring the true son of the Church irresistibly intp conflict with the organs of the Catholic Church. Up to the year 1521, the history of the Reformation is consequently almost identical with the history of Martin Luther's development, searchings, and struggles. Luther sprang from a German peasant family, which had settled at Mbhra in Thuringia. His father, Hans Luther, had removed from ther...