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On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church
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Christian doctrine and dogma
- In Christianity: Controversy: fighting over the faith
…at Rome was the treatise On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church (1520), which attacked the current sacramental system and left Christ himself as the sole sacrament in the scriptural sense (cf. 1 Timothy 3:16) and baptism and the Lord’s Supper as his “sacramental signs.” Luther also attacked the “enthusiasts”…
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