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A 3D rendering of the White Plains Baptist Church building.

A 3D rendering of the Liberty Methodist Church building.

A 3D rendering of the Antioch Baptist Church building.

A 3D rendering of the Powelton Methodist Church building.

Summary: A significant treatise on predestination. Johann Eck expounds a view of free will and merit, which was soon to come under attack by Martin Luther and other Protestants.

Summary: One of three 1522 printings of an essay on monastic vows written by Luther during his stay at the Wartburg Castle after the Diet of Worms. It is addressed to monks, whose conscience is troubled by the conflict between their vows and their desire to leave the monastic life. Luther frequently referred to this piece throughout his career, and it became one of his most influential works.

Summary: First edition of Ulrich Pinder's Passion narrative richly illustrated with 77 woodcut images (39 full page). Pinder was medical doctor, who had served as the court physician of the Elector Frederick the Wise os Saxony. After 1493 he was the town physician for the city of Nuremberg, where he also wrote several medical tracts and published a variety of books with the printer Friedrich Peypus. For this work, Pinder employed the services of the engravers Hans Schaufelein, who contributed 39 woodcuts, and Hans Baldung Grien, who contributed 21 woodcuts.

Summary: Fredrick the Wise asked Luther to write to Emperor Charles V after the publication of his Open letter to the Christian Nobility in order to express his loyalty. Spalatin convinced Luther to write this letter of submission and edited it for publication.

Summary: First printing of F. von Oberweimar's narrative of her escape from the convent of New-Helfta. She came to Luther in Wittenberg in 1524, and he published her explanation of her actions.

Summary: Public renunciation of his monastic vows and earlier teachings by Sebastian Meyer, a preacher in the city of Strassburg and an early follower of Martin Luther.

Summary: One of nine 1524 printings of this short anti-monastic tract by the Nuremberg cobbler and playright Hans Sachs.

Summary: After Karlstadt had been driven out of Saxony, he sought refuge in South Germany. When this proved impossible, he returned to Wittenberg. Karlstadt publish a retraction of his former opinions and then publish nothing else without prior approval. This is the retraction with Luther's preface. Needless to say, Karlstadt did not find these conditions at all acceptable and he was soon on the move again. He came to settle in Switzerland, first in Zurich and finally in Basel, where he died on Christmas Eve, 1541.

Summary: This is another academic disputation by Eck at Ingolstadt on monastic vows including 160 theses "in praise of those men who practice the monastic life."

Summary: Treatise on which books are to be considered canonical, by Andreas Rudolff-Bodenstein von Karlstadt, Luther's more radical Wittenberg colleague.

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Summary: This is the third printing of Luther's treatise on monastic vows.

Summary: After Luther had published the Ninety-five Theses, a broad academic debate spread across Germany on the question of the validity of indulgences. The debate was soon joined by Eck of Ingolstadt, representing the Catholic position. Karlstadt, a senior theologian at Wittenberg seems to have taken the lead in defending his colleague with his work, a series of disputations held at the University of Wittenberg beginning May 14, 1518, and continuing beyond July 7, 1518.

Summary: The question of the value and validity of monastic vows arose in Wittenberg because of Luther's tract, On the Freedom of a Christian, as well as because of his advice to monks to leave their monasteries. Karlstadt here argues that vows of monastic obedience prevent men and women from following God's commands. Karlstadt was the first of the Protestant Reformers to repudiate the validity of monastic vows.

Summary: First edition of a short tract written by Luther at Wartburg castle and addressed to the bishop and religious leaders in Wittenberg. In 139 brief statements, Luther warns that religious vows and monastic life do not by themselves bring about the forgiveness of sins.

Summary: Sermon preached September 30, 1526, on Matthew 22:34-46 (Jesus in Temple during Passion Week).

Summary: The text contains the book of Psalms (leaves 5 recto - 127 recto), selected biblical prayers and canticles (leaves 127 verso - 140 verso: Exodus 15:1-9 - Deuteronomy 32, 1:21, 22-43 - 1 Samuel 2: 1-10 - Isaiah 26, 38 : 1-20, 26 - 2 Chronicles 33 : 1-13 - Jonah 2: 1 - selections from Daniel - Habakkuk 3:1-19 - Luke 1: 47-55, 68-79 - Luke 2: 25-32, Songs of Songs (leaves 141 recto - 150 recto), daily readings in praise of Mary, Mother of Jesus (leaves 151 recto - 163 recto). Each section is marked by an ornamental banner illustration.