Martin Luther?

Question

Why didn't Luther suffer the same fate as Hus or Wycliffe?

Answer 1

The Pope very strongly disapproved of all three of them - Hus, Wycliffe, and Luther - and would have liked them executed. However, only the sovereigns of their native countries could bring them to trial and have them executed.

Now the difference was that, in the time of Hus and Wycliffe, if any sovereign did not do what the Pope wanted, it was likely that a neighbouring sovereign would try to gain the Pope's favour either by declaring war against them, or making trouble for them in some other way. So most of them carried out the Pope's wishes, just to feel safe.

But by the time of Luther, sovereigns had begun to feel that the Pope should not have so great an influence over what they did, and they followed their own minds about how to govern their countries, and who to prosecute for supposed treason or heresy, and whether to make trouble for any of their neighbouring sovereigns or not. If Luther had been twenty years earlier, or maybe even ten, then he would have been a dead man like Hus and Wycliffe.

Answer 2

Luther was under the protection of Frederick the elector of Saxony. He rescued him after the Diet of Worms and gave him refuge in his castle.

You have to understand the political situation at the time. There was a lot of hostility in Germany against the Papacy and so many of the princes, the merchants, the knights and the common people were keen to support a movement which opposed the Papacy.

The most important supporters of Luther, were of course the princes, who established a territorial base in which Lutheranism could flourish.

Answer 3

Before the Roman Catholic Church excommunicated Martin Luther, he had already come to the conclusion that one is saved by faith alone, which is also one of the fundamental tenets of Protestantism, several years before he protested the sale of indulgences. The Church also took three years to excommunicate him after he nailed his 95 Theses on the church door and then left the enforcement of the 41 sentences against him to secular authorities.

Thus, the princes of Northern Germany were already familiar with Luther's theology before he was called upon to defend it. Accordingly, Luther came under the personal protection of Frederick III, the Elector of Saxony, during which time he translated the bible from Greek to German.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

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