Event
The Leipzig Debate
A public debate in Leipzig in summer 1519 between Johann Eck and Andreas Karlstadt, then Martin Luther.
- Dates
- 27 Jun 1519
Johann Eck debated Andreas Karlstadt and then Martin Luther at Leipzig in 1519. Each side claimed the victory.
Connections 6
interventions
- Andreas Karlstadt 27 Jun 1519 debated Eck on free will Primary record 1
- Johann Eck 27 Jun 1519 debated Karlstadt, then Luther Primary record 1
involved
- Johann Eck argued for the pope's primacy and against Luther Primary record 1
- Andreas Karlstadt debated Eck first, on free will Primary record 1
- Martin Luther argued that Rome's primacy rested on recent decrees Primary record 1
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Timeline 3 dates
- 27 Jun 1519 The Leipzig Debate
- 27 Jun 1519 Andreas Karlstadt intervened in The Leipzig Debate
- 27 Jun 1519 Johann Eck intervened in The Leipzig Debate
Proof 1 source
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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
Carlstadt sought to prove that whatever was meritorious in the words or deeds of a man was due wholly to God
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.
Luther followed Carlstadt to sustain the thesis that it was only by recent decretals that the Roman Church was proved to be superior to other Churches
Also remember that I was present [at the Leipsic debate] by chance.
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