Chapter XIX: Luther’s Relations with Zwingli, Carlstadt,
BUGENHAGEN AND OTHERS _pages_ 379-416
1. ZWINGLI AND THE CONTROVERSY ON THE SUPPER.
Earlier relationship between Zwingli and Luther; their
divergent opinions on the Eucharist; the Marburg
Conference between the two; the power behind this
Conference; Luther on Zwingli’s untimely end _pages_ 379-385
2. CARLSTADT.
Finding Wittenberg too warm, Carlstadt removes to
Orlamünde; his meeting with Luther in the Black Bear Inn
at Jena; he goes to Strasburg, and thence to Rothenburg;
he is driven by want to accept Luther’s conditions; he
breaks his promise, escapes to Switzerland and receives
an appointment at Basle. What Luther says of him in the
Table-Talk and in his “Widder die hymelischen Propheten”:
The defects of Carlstadt’s mission, his violent
behaviour, his attachment to the Decalogue, his wrong
interpretation of the Supper, his stress on the inward
rather than on the outward Word, his unacquaintance with
“temptations” _pages_ 385-400
3. JOHANN AGRICOLA, JACOB SCHENK, AND JOHANN EGRANUS.
Luther on Agricola. Schenk and the question of the
Law; an encounter between Schenk and Luther. Egranus’s
dissatisfaction with Luther; Luther’s references to the
“brood of Erasmus”; the burden of Egranus’s complaints _pages_ 400-404
4. BUGENHAGEN, JONAS AND OTHERS.
Luther’s admiration for Amsdorf and Brenz. Bugenhagen, a
legate “_a facie et a corde_”; his antecedents; becomes
pastor of Wittenberg; his missionary labours; his
intimacy with Luther; his letters from Denmark; a female
demoniac. Friendship between Luther and Jonas as attested
by the Table-Talk; chief events of Jonas’s life _pages_ 404-416
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