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[1][Forget 'hammer and nail and hunk o' wood' -THE ISSUE IS UNRESOLVED
CF ] Wilson, Derek (2014-09-25). Out Of The Storm: The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther (Kindle Locations 1841-1844). Random House. Kindle Edition.
[2]About the Author: Derek Wilson is well-known through his books, radio and TV appearances, frequent journalistic features and festival appearances as one of the UK’s leading narrative historians. Among his critically acclaimed and bestselling books are The King and the Gentleman: Charles Stuart and Oliver Cromwell 1599– 1649; In the Lion's Court: Power, Ambition and Sudden Death in the Reign of Henry VIII; All the King's Women: Love, Sex and Politics in the Life of Charles II and Charlemagne: The Great Adventure. Derek Wilson is the organiser of the Cambridge History Festival.
Wilson, Derek. Out Of The Storm: The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther . Random House. Kindle Edition.
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: A more recent analysis tends to support the
: nailing of the theses to the Church door.
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: https://www.luther2017.de/en/martin-luther/history-stories/on-the-doors-of-the-wittenberg-churches/
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: Latest developments in the debate about the
: theses being nailed to the church door.
: by Dr. Martin Treu
: In 1961, the Catholic Luther researcher
: Erwin Iserloh realized that in all the works
: and letters of the Reformer he nowhere
: explicitly mentioned nailing his 95 theses
: to the door on October 31, 1517. Philipp
: Melanchthon was the first to mention it in
: the preface to the first volume of Luther's
: Collected Works in 1546. But by then Luther
: was already dead. Melanchthon only came to
: Wittenberg in 1518, and so could not have
: been an eye-witness. So Iserloh concluded
: that the theses had never been nailed to the
: door, and began a huge debate, which has
: still not been brought to a final
: conclusion.
:
: The unnoticed comment by Luther's secretary
: In 2006, Martin Treu from the Luther
: Memorials Foundation of Saxony- Anhalt
: rediscovered a handwritten comment by
: Luther’s secretary Georg Rörer (1492-1557)
: in the Jena University and State Library,
: which although printed, had so far played no
: role in research. Right at the end of the
: desk copy for the revision of the New
: Testament in 1540, Rörer made the following
: note: „On the evening before All Saints’ Day
: in the year of our Lord 1517, theses about
: letters of indulgence were nailed to the
: doors of the Wittenberg churches by Doctor
: Martin Luther.”
:
: The ultimate evidence has not been produced
: Now Rörer was also not an eye-witness, but
: he was one of Luther's closest staff. The
: copy of the New Testament, in which he made
: his note, contains many entries in Luther’s
: own hand. The note right at the end of the
: volume leads us to assume that it was made
: at the conclusion of the revision work in
: November 1544. Directly beside it is another
: note, according to which Philipp Melanchthon
: arrived in Wittenberg on August 20, 1518, at
: ten o’ clock in the morning. This
: information is not to be found anywhere else
: and presumably came directly from
: Melanchthon himself. Rörer's reference to
: the Wittenberg churches in the plural must
: be emphasized, as it corresponds to the
: statutes of the university. According to
: these, all public announcements had to be
: nailed to the doors of the churches.
:
: While this does not give final proof of the
: theses being nailed to the door, together
: with Rörer’s note it seems much more
: probable. It is at least so far the oldest
: source for it from the time when Luther was
: still alive. And: Wittenberg now has more
: than one “Theses Door”.
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