The Heidelberg Disputation was held at the lecture hall of the
Augustinian order
Augustinians are members of Christian religious orders that follow the Rule of Saint Augustine, written in about 400 AD by Augustine of Hippo. There are two distinct types of Augustinians in Catholic religious orders dating back to the 12th–13 ...
on April 26, 1518. It was here that
Martin Luther
Martin Luther (; ; 10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, and professor, and Augustinian friar. He is the seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation and the namesake of Lutherani ...
, as a delegate for his order, began to have occasion to articulate his views. In the defense of his theses, which culminated in a contrast between divine love and human love, Luther defended the doctrine of human depravity and the bondage of the will.
Martin Bucer, the reformer of
Strasbourg, heard Luther here and became an avid follower. This disputation also led to
Johann Eck
Johann Maier von Eck (13 November 1486 – 13 February 1543), often anglicized as John Eck, was a German Catholic theologian, scholastic, prelate, and a pioneer of the counter-reformation who was among Martin Luther's most important int ...
's challenging Martin Luther to the
Leipzig Debate
The Leipzig Debate (german: Leipziger Disputation) was a theological disputation originally between Andreas Karlstadt, Martin Luther and Johann Eck. Karlstadt, the dean of the Wittenberg theological faculty, felt that he had to defend Luther a ...
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28 theses
The Heidelberg 28 theses were the basis of the disputation and represented a significant evolution from the
95 theses
The ''Ninety-five Theses'' or ''Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences''-The title comes from the 1517 Basel pamphlet printing. The first printings of the ''Theses'' use an incipit rather than a title which summarizes the content ...
of the previous year from a simple dispute about the theology behind indulgences to a fuller, Augustinian theology of sovereign grace.
Observers
File:Martin Bucer.png, Martin Bucer
File:Erhard Schnepf (RB23-07).jpg, Erhard Schnepf
File:Johann-Brenz.jpg, Johannes Brenz
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Theology of the Cross
The theology of the Cross (Latin: ''Theologia Crucis'', german: Kreuzestheologie) or staurology (from Greek ''stauros'': cross, and ''-logy'': "the study of") is a term coined by the theologian Martin Luther to refer to theology that posits the c ...
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