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Luther's Social Ethics In Contrast To Rome's Asceticism, Arnold Wessler
Luther's Social Ethics In Contrast To Rome's Asceticism, Arnold Wessler
Bachelor of Divinity
"Luther brought back the pure doctrine of justification; that, above all, made him the Reformer of the Church." By carrying out the implications of this Scriptural truth in its relation to the rest of Roman theology Luther once and for all broke the power of the Roman papacy. Other reformers had failed and Luther succeeded in his Reformation because he struck at the root of the problem and undermined the foundations upon which Rome's whole diabolical system of theology rested. Luther succeeded because he destroyed Rome's sacerdotalism and sacramentalism.