The Leipzig Disputation
1519 · Event
Debating the theologian Johann Eck, Luther is manoeuvred into admitting he holds views condemned as heresy at Constance a century earlier — and that councils, like popes, can err. The break with Rome, still deniable in 1517, is now explicit; a papal bull threatening excommunication follows within the year.
On these timelines: The Reformation, Christianity, Major Religions, Master, Germany
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