Martin Luther : the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 / by Henry Eyster Jacobs . a theologianwithout either Aristotle or Plato. At the court ofthe Elector Frederick was the chaplain and privatesecretary, George Spalatin, a fellow-student ofLuther at Erfurt, whose acquaintance had ripenedinto intimacy, when he attended the University ofWittenberg in 1511, in order to supervise the studiesof the young Duke of Brunswick, and who had nowbecome an enthusiastic advocate of the revivedAugustinianism. All through these efforts, and this period of thematuring of his convictions, Luther never dreamt ofb
Martin Luther : the hero of the reformation 1483-1546 / by Henry Eyster Jacobs . a theologianwithout either Aristotle or Plato. At the court ofthe Elector Frederick was the chaplain and privatesecretary, George Spalatin, a fellow-student ofLuther at Erfurt, whose acquaintance had ripenedinto intimacy, when he attended the University ofWittenberg in 1511, in order to supervise the studiesof the young Duke of Brunswick, and who had nowbecome an enthusiastic advocate of the revivedAugustinianism. All through these efforts, and this period of thematuring of his convictions, Luther never dreamt ofbreaking with the Church, or occasioning a seriousconflict within it. So scrupulous was he in the ob-servance of every ecclesiastical requirement that heafterwards told how, even at this late date, whenhis engagements were so numerous as to interferewith his observance of the canonical hours, he onceshut himself up in his cell on Sunday, in order tomake up the number of prayers that he had lostduring the pressing labours of the preceding week. BOOK II THE PROTESTANT 1517-1522. LUTHER AS ELIAS (MAL. IV., 5). CHAPTER I THE SALE OF INDULGENCES; AND THE XCV THESES THE life of Luther is marked by sudden and un-looked-for events; such were his entrance intothe monastery, his doctorate of theology, and hismarriage. Such, also, were the Ninety-five Thesesof October 31, 1517, and their immediate were the outcome of his pastoral fidelity to thesouls with whom he had to deal in the was intended as a matter of discussion for avery limited circle of the learned, with a view to anearly remedy for an abuse of whose extent he hadat the moment no conception, soon became theproperty of Christendom, and revolutionised thesocial and political, as well as the religious world ofEurope. The day on which the Theses were pub-lished is the birthday of the Protestant was himself unconscious of what his pro-test implied. His criticism was called forth, not b
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