In his The Babylonian Captivity of the Church; Martin Luther set forth a reconsideration of the sacramental Christian life that centered on the word. His thesis is that the papacy had distorted the sacraments with its own traditions and regulations; transforming them into a system of control and coercion. The evangelical liberty of the sacramental promises had been replaced by a papal absolutism which; like a feudal lordship; claimed its own jurisdictional liberties and privileges over the totality of Christian life through a sacramental system that spanned birth to death. Yet Luther does not replace one tyranny for another; his argument for a return to the biblical understanding of the sacraments is moderated by a consideration of traditions and external practices in relation to their effects on the individual conscience and faith.This volume is excerpted from The Annotated Luther series; Volume 3. Each volume in the series contains new introductions; annotations; illustrations; and notes to help shed light on Luther's context and interpret his writings for today. The translations of Luther's writings include updates of Luther' Works; American Edition; or entirely new translations of Luther's German or Latin writings.
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