Excerpt from Luther und Emser, Vol. 1: Ihre Streitschriften aus dem Jahre 1521
Es erubrigt noch, in Kurze das spatere Leben Emeers zu betrachten. Emser war in seinem Kampfe gegen die Reformation unermudlich, noch eine grosse Anzahl von Schriften schrieb er gegen Luther (sowie auch gegen Carl stadt und Zwingli), ohne dass es Luther fiir der Muhe worth hielt, ihm jemals noch zu antworten. Wahrend wir von einer bibliographischen Aufzahlung der einzelnen Schriften Emsers Abstand nehmen, soll nur erwahnt werden, dass er auch gegen Luthers Uebersetznng des Neuen Testaments 1523 mit einer Schrift auftrat, worin er Luthern nicht weniger als 1400 Fehler und Ketzereien nachzuweisen sucht, die aber grusstentheils darin bestanden, dass Emser sich nach der agata richtete, Luther dagegen den Urtext zu Grunde ge legt hatte. Auch mit einer eigenen Uebersetzung des Neuen Testaments trat er 1527 hervor, die Herzog Georg von Sachsen sogar einer eigenen Vorrede wurdigte, die aber, ab gesehen von den nach der Vulgata gemachten Veranderungen, nichts weiter als ein Plagiat der Lutherschen Uebersetznng ist, indessen viele, bald mehr bald weniger veranderte Auf. Lagen bis ins vorige Jahrhundert hinein erlebte. Die Usher setzung des Neuen Testaments war seine letzte Arbeit, er starb zu Dresden am 8. November 1527 eines plotzlichen Todes an einem Stickilusse.
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Martin Luther changed the course of Western civilization by initiating the Protestant Reformation. As a priest and theology professor, he confronted indulgence salesmen with his 95 Theses in 1517. Luther strongly disputed their claim that freedom from God's punishment of sin could be purchased with money. His refusal to retract all of his writings at the demand of Pope Leo X in 1520 and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms meeting in 1521 resulted in his excommunication by the pope and condemnation as an outlaw by the emperor.
Luther taught that salvation is a free gift of God and received only by grace through faith in Jesus as redeemer from sin, not from good works. His theology challenged the authority of the pope of the Roman Catholic Church by teaching that the Bible is the only source of divinely revealed knowledge and opposed sacerdotalism by considering all baptized Christians to be a holy priesthood.
His translation of the Bible into the language of the people (instead of Latin) made it more accessible, causing a tremendous impact on the church and on German culture. It fostered the development of a standard version of the German language, added several principles to the art of translation, and influenced the translation into English of the King James Bible. His hymns inspired the development of singing in churches. His marriage to Katharina von Bora set a model for the practice of clerical marriage, allowing Protestant priests to marry.
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