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Tetzel's sermon on indulgences
A sermon on indulgences preached about 1517 by Johann Tetzel, as printed.
- Dates
- c. 1517
The sermon of Johann Tetzel, preached for the The Peter’s indulgence.
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- The Peter's indulgence Scholarship & press 1
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- Ninety-Five Theses Scholarship & press 12
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- Johann Tetzel c. 1517 Primary record 3
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- c. 1517 Tetzel's sermon on indulgences
- c. 1517 Johann Tetzel authored Tetzel's sermon on indulgences
Proof 3 sources
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Preaching Future Security: Johann Tetzel, Sermon on Indulgences (c. 1517), editors' introduction, German History in Documents and Images (German Historical Institute Washington).
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In 1517, Tetzel preached a great indulgence under the sponsorship of many German churchmen, princes, and urban regimes
The campaign triggered Luther’s attack on indulgences, which marked the beginning of his agitation for reform.
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Sources for and against the Posting of the Ninety-Five Theses, by Volker Leppin and Timothy J. Wengert, Lutheran Quarterly 29 (2015), pp. 373-398 (Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen repository), 2015.
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Luther always gave as a basis for his own intervention the exaggerations of the indulgence preachers, above all, Tetzel.
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Preaching Future Security: Johann Tetzel, Sermon on Indulgences (c. 1517), German History in Documents and Images (German Historical Institute Washington), 1517.
Primary record
You should know that all who confess and in penance put alms into the coffer according to the counsel of the confessor, will obtain complete remission of all their sins.
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