 | Martin Luther - 1915 - 494 strani
...power and right understanding of baptism are put by, and faith in Christ is prevented. Therefore I say: Neither pope nor bishop nor any other man has the...syllable of law upon a Christian man without his consent; and if he does, it is done in the spirit of tyranny. Therefore the prayers, fasts, donations, and whatever... | |
 | George Leopold Hurst - 1926 - 568 strani
...concerned but one containing the whole sum of the Christian life." It maintains the principle that "neither Pope nor bishop nor any other man has the right to prescribe a single syllable to a Christian without his consent"; the priesthood of all believers is... | |
 | James Monti - 1997 - 508 strani
...[T]he church is smothered with endless laws concerning works and ceremonies . . . Therefore I say: Neither pope nor bishop nor any other man has the...consent; if he does, it is done in the spirit of tyranny . . . 1 lift my voice simply on behalf of liberty and conscience, and I confidently cry: No law, whether... | |
 | John Witte - 2002 - 362 strani
...the Gospel, faith, grace, and true divine service." "Neither pope nor bishop nor any other [clerical] man has the right to impose a single syllable of law upon a Christian. . . . '"9 Moreover, in Luther's view, the canon law opposed both the teaching and the authority of... | |
 | Paul D. L. Avis - 2006 - 262 strani
...saintliness (29, 106). The Babylonian Captivity explicitly invoked the conciliarist principle of consent: 'Neither pope nor bishop nor any other man has the...man without his consent; if he does, it is done in a spirit of tyranny' (70). So all the prayers, fasts, donations and other exactions that the pope compels... | |
 | 2006 - 554 strani
...In his influential treatise, The Babylonian Captivity of the Church, Luther states: Therefore I say: Neither pope nor bishop nor any other man has the...syllable of law upon a Christian man without his consent; and if he does, it is done in the spirit of tyranny. Therefore the prayers, fasts, donations, and whatever... | |
 | Wilber W. Caldwell - 2006 - 181 strani
...New Testament to the core. When Luther proclaimed his "priesthood of all believers," he had insisted, "neither Pope, nor bishop, nor any other man has the...single syllable of law upon a Christian man without his consent."123 As Vernon Parrington puts it, "There was gunpowder packed away in Luther's priesthood... | |
 | Vernon Louis Parrington - 1927 - 456 strani
...necessary for Christian life, righjtepusness and liberty." And from this he deduced the conclusion that "neither pope nor bishop nor any other man has the...syllable of law upon a Christian man without his consent; and if he does, it is done in the spirit of tyranny." i Clearly, this is the spirit of uncompromising... | |
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Therefore I say: Neither pope nor bishop nor any other man has the right to impose a single syllable of law upon a Christian man without his consent; and if he does, it is done in the spirit of tyranny. 