Burkhardt, the librarian, is only a copy of the eighteenth century. But that MS., according to the testimony of Dr. Merle d’Aubigné relates the dream at great length as being, "beyond reasonable doubt, true in the essential parts." He appeals to an original MS., written from the dictation of Spalatin, in the archives of Weimar, which was published in 1817. ![]() The Elector Frederick dreamed, in the night before Luther affixed the Theses, that God sent him a monk, a true son of the Apostle Paul, and that this monk wrote something on the door of the castle church at Wittenberg with a pen which reached even to Rome, pierced the head and ears of a lion (Leo), and shook the triple crown of the Pope. Fleck, "the man has come who will do the thing." Reuchlin thanked God that "the monks have now found a man who will give them such full employment that they will be glad to let me spend my old age in peace." 197 197 The prophetic dream of the Elector, so often told, is a poetic fiction. They found a hearty response with liberal scholars and enemies of monastic obscurantism, with German patriots longing for emancipation from Italian control, and with thousands of plain Christians waiting for the man of Providence who should give utterance to their feelings of indignation against existing abuses, and to their desire for a pure, scriptural, and spiritual religion. They sounded the trumpet of the Reformation. The Theses of Luther were a tract for the times. 126 sqq.), Bratke, and Dieckhoff, as quoted in § 31. On the details of the controversy, see Jürgens (III. ![]() Tetzel’s Anti-Theses, 2 series, one of 106, the other of 50 sentences, are printed in Löscher’s Ref. Letters of Luther to Archbishop Albrecht, Spalatin, and others, in De Wette, I. 380–393) Resolutiones disputationum de indulgentiarum virtute, August, 1518, dedicated to the Pope (I. 278–316) Freiheit des Sermons päpstlichen Ablass und Gnade belangend, June, 1518, against Tetzel (I. 257–265) Asterisci adversus Obeliscos Eckii, March, 1518 (I. 248–256, in Latin under the title Instructio pro Confessione peccatorum, p. The holdings of the collection now exceed 4,000 items, a mark approximated by only two other libraries in North America no American library approaches the Kessler Collection's 1,000+ publications by Luther himself.Luther’s Sermon vom Ablass und Gnade, printed in February, 1518 (Weimar ed. In this way historians and theologians will be able to hear the full range of voices that were raised in this dynamic period. The purpose of the Kessler Collection is to document these changes by collecting print and manuscript materials down to 1570 by Martin Luther (1483-1546) and those whom he influenced or engaged in debate. In the sixteenth century the social and theological movements of central Europe, known collectively as the Reformation, critically shaped religion, law, education and other institutions in the West, and their long shadow has extended even to the present. The Reformation Notes newsletter provides semiannual updates on the growth of the collection, and the Reformation Day at Emory program of music and lectures each October celebrates the collection and its contributions to music, history, and theology. An advisory committee of Lutheran laypersons and clergy and of Candler School of Theology faculty and administrators oversees the nurture of the collection and its programs. These materials were combined with Reformation holdings at the Pitts Theology Library, and an effort was launched to enlarge and sustain this collection in the years to come. Kessler Reformation Collection was established in 1987, when Richard and Martha Kessler donated their private collection of Reformation imprints and manuscripts to Emory University.
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