CitizenWald OP , 8 months ago

Things October 31 is besides #Halloween: #Reformation Day, celebrating the date in 1517 when Martin #Luther nailed his 95 theses to a church door in Wittenberg--or did he?

In 2018, 2 historians from the historical Luther sites set forth the case for the authenticity of the tradition that he nailed the 95 theses to the church door OTD 1517:

Luthers Thesenanschlag laut Historikern mehr als bloss Legende https://ref.ch/news/luthers-thesenanschlag-laut-historikern-mehr-als-bloss-legende/ 7/n

CitizenWald OP , 8 months ago

Things October 31 is besides #Halloween: #Reformation Day, celebrating the date in 1517 when Martin #Luther nailed his 95 theses to a church door in Wittenberg--or did he?

Book historian Andrew Pettegree, who accepts the tradition, makes the key points in Brand Luther (2017):

• Even Luther did not see the Theses as extraordinary
• Regardless of the authenticity of the church door story, it was the new #print culture that made them revolutionary 8/8
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the theses is overwhelming. We know that the Wittenberg press had been established largely to serve the interests of the university, and aca- demic ephemera of this sort dominated the output of the first print shops.* We can also call in evidence the relatively recent discovery of Rhau-Grunenberg’s September printing of the theses on Scholastic theology.*® This provides critical evidence for the existence of a Rhau- Grunenberg broadsheet prototype of the ninety-five theses on indul- gences. For the earlier broadsheet Rhau-Grunenberg used what was clearly his house style, dividing the theses into blocks of twenty-five. This was precisely the form in which the Nuremberg and Basel reprints of the ninety-five theses on indulgences were presented, suggesting they were set up on the basis of a lost Wittenberg original. This really crucial