Johann Eck
Augsburg Confession (1530)
The Augsburg Confession of 1530: its occasion at the Diet of Augsburg, Melanchthon's authorship, Luther's part from the Coburg, the twenty-eight articles, the Roman Confutation, and the Invariata and Variata editions.
Baden Disputation (1526)
Baden Disputation (1526): The Swiss divide becomes public. A concise account of the debate and its place in the Protestant Reformation.
Disputations
A chronological guide to major public theological disputations that shaped the Protestant Reformation from 1518 to 1554.
Johann Eck
Luther’s ablest debater, who forced him at Leipzig to side with Hus and carried the bull of excommunication into Germany.
Leipzig Disputation (1519)
Leipzig Disputation (1519): Luther and Eck debate papal authority, councils, and Scripture.
The Colloquy of Regensburg
The Colloquy of Regensburg (1541): Charles V’s attempt to reunite Protestants and Catholics, the agreed article on justification, the break over the church and the Mass, and Calvin’s warning against a “half-Christ.”
The Diet of Worms
The Diet of Worms, 1521: Luther before Charles V, drawn chiefly from Roland Bainton's Here I Stand — the two hearings, the request for a day's delay, the answer of 18 April, the committee that nearly broke him, and the Edict passed by a rump.
Urbanus Rhegius
A short biography of Urbanus Rhegius (1489–1541), preacher at Augsburg, superintendent of Lüneburg, and author of a handbook for preachers.
