Person
Johann Eck
Theologian of Ingolstadt who debated Karlstadt and Luther at Leipzig in 1519.
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Johann Eck argued against Martin Luther at the The Leipzig Debate and helped prepare Exsurge Domine.
Connections 3
intervened in
- The Leipzig Debate 27 Jun 1519 debated Karlstadt, then Luther Primary record 1
developed
- Exsurge Domine 1520 supplied most of the theological material for the bull Scholarship & press 2
involved in
- The Leipzig Debate argued for the pope's primacy and against Luther Primary record 1
Timeline 2 dates
- 27 Jun 1519 Johann Eck intervened in The Leipzig Debate
- 1520 Johann Eck developed Exsurge Domine
Proof 2 sources
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Luther's Correspondence and Other Contemporary Letters, volume I, 1507-1521, translated by Preserved Smith and Charles M. Jacobs (the letters), Lutheran Publication Society, Philadelphia (scan on the Internet Archive), 1913.
Primary record
he challenged them to a public debate. The Wittenbergers did not refuse.
Carlstadt and Eck, each asking the usual indulgence for himself, descended into the arena.
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The Life and Letters of Martin Luther, by Preserved Smith, Houghton Mifflin, Boston (scan on the Internet Archive), 1911.
Scholarship & press
the theological material was largely supplied by Eck
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