. A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools. ersity of Erfurtby self-denial and His friends expected him to be-come a lawyer; but in 1505, being in great fear for the salvationof his soul, he amazed them by becoming a friar. In the con-vent he practiced every monkish mortification, but only foundpeace for his soul upon being convinced that merely the freegrace of God, not any personal self-righteousness, couldbring salvation to the penitent sinner. He became Professorof Theology in the Saxon University of Wittenberg; and wassoon famous as a theological lecturer a
. A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools. ersity of Erfurtby self-denial and His friends expected him to be-come a lawyer; but in 1505, being in great fear for the salvationof his soul, he amazed them by becoming a friar. In the con-vent he practiced every monkish mortification, but only foundpeace for his soul upon being convinced that merely the freegrace of God, not any personal self-righteousness, couldbring salvation to the penitent sinner. He became Professorof Theology in the Saxon University of Wittenberg; and wassoon famous as a theological lecturer and as a preacher of a violent revolution in which the whole fabric of the Church, not simply theabuses, was demolished. 1 Nor so many signs, perhaps: the memory of the heretic John Hus (see p. 199)would, in 1416, still have been keen. 2 Luthers father had prospered enough to be of some assistance to him whenhe went to the university. — Attempts to explain the Protestant Reformationas a merely social and economic movement, and to ignore Luther, are
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