By Elizabeth Vandiver, Ralph Keen, Thomas D. Frazel
Luther's Lives is the 1st eyewitness account of the lifetime of Martin Luther, ever to be translated into English. It comprises the writings of Johannes Cochlaeus, who witnessed Luther's recognized assertion on the nutrition of Worms, and later debated with Luther and different leaders of the Reformation. This booklet provides a lifetime of Cochlaeus, plus a whole scholarly gear for readers who desire to make a broader learn
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And so the work of God is to fear. I do not say these things because there is need either for my doctrine or my warning in these whirlwinds so great, but because I ought not to turn aside the obedience owed my Germany. And I entrust myself to these your Powers and to your most Serene Majesty, humbly asking that they not permit me to be rendered hateful to them by the efforts of my Adversaries without cause. ’ To these words, the Orator of the Empire scornfully said that Luther did not respond to the point, nor ought be called into question things which long ago in Councils had been condemned and defined.
For I am speaking of the highest Doctrine as it is understood and explained in our Churches by the pious and learned. For even if some men at times explain something more properly and elegantly while other men explain less so, or one man speaks sometimes in a less refined manner than another, nevertheless there is agreement among the pious and educated about matters of the greatest importance. And as I often think hard about the doctrine of all times [handed down] by the Apostles uninterruptedly from that time, after the initial purity four 24 Luther’s lives prominent changes of doctrine seemed to have followed.
Born Johann Dobneck of humble parents in Wendelstein, a small town outside of Nuremberg, the young Cochlaeus (the name is a Latinization of Wendelstein) was entrusted, in the manner of the age, to his uncle Johann Hirspeck, a parish priest, for his early education. In 1504 Cochlaeus proceeded to the University of Cologne, where he received the baccalaureate in 1505 and the master’s degree in 1507.
