{"id":1392,"date":"2009-07-30T13:00:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2009-07-30T13:00:14","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T13:00:14","slug":"martin-luther:-response-to-diet-of-worms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1392","title":{"rendered":"Martin Luther: Response to Diet of Worms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&quot;<em>Since your majesty and your lordships<br \/>\ndesire a simple reply, I will answer without horns or teeth. <strong>Unless I<br \/>\nam convinced by Scripture and by plain reason<\/strong> (I do not believe in the<br \/>\nauthority of either popes or councils by themselves, for it is plain<br \/>\nthat they have often erred and contradicted each other) <strong>in those<br \/>\nScriptures that I have presented<\/strong>, <strong>for my conscience is captive to the<br \/>\nWord of God<\/strong>, I cannot and I will not recant anything, for <strong>to go against<br \/>\nconscience is neither right nor safe<\/strong>. Here I stand; <strong>I can do no other<\/strong>.<br \/>\nGod help me. Amen.<\/em>&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<span>According to Michael A. Mullett<\/span>, the phrase &quot;Here I stand; Ican do no other&quot; was included by Melanchthon (Martin Luther, Mullett, pg. 128).<br \/>\nAs to where by Melanchthon, I have yet to discover, perhaps in one of his yet to be translated latin\/german works. However, it would<br \/>\nquestion those who would discount this part easily based on their own<br \/>\nsources.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnyhow, whether such phrase was actually included, we are sure that the intent is there nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Since your majesty and your lordships desire a simple reply, I will answer without horns or teeth. Unless I am convinced by Scripture and by plain reason (I do not believe in the authority of either popes or councils by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1392\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}