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Joy of Christian freedom

It is without doubt one of the most important treatises in the history of the church.

History Professor Michael Haykin
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Luther burning the Papal Bull in front of the Elster Gate at Wittenberg in December 1520

I refer to Martin Luther’s The Freedom of a Christian (1520), sometimes called Christian Liberty. It is a powerful, yet succinct and polemic-free, statement of Luther’s position on how a person is saved and what that entails.