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The Babylonian Captivity of the Church

De captivitate Babylonica ecclesiae praeludium · Martin Luther, 1520

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The sacramental treatise, and the one that made reconciliation impossible. Seven sacraments reduced to two, on the ground that a sacrament needs a divine promise attached to a physical sign. Everything Lutherans say about the Supper starts here.

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