Diet of Speyer

Luther's, uh, the musical side of Luther.

Um, we're gonna talk about the Diet of Speyer, Speyer, um, which are important.

It may not be like household name like [laughs] Diet of Worms or, or Augsburg or something like that, but, uh, they're very significant.

Happens in the late 1520s.

We talked about the Diet of Worms and these other important diets.

These all thing, a lot of things, civil matters especially, but a lot, but seeing how civil and religious matters were so close and intertwined in this period, that's where a lot of matters, both spiritual and temporal, were hashed out and settled, uh, or not settled at these kinds of meetings.

Diet of Speyer, of course, in the town of Speyer, there's two of them in the 1520s, and they're two very d- they're very different from each other.

There's one in 1526 and one in 1529.

Persecution served only to extend the truth, and the fanaticism which Satan endeavored to unite with it resulted in making more clear the contrast between the work of Satan and the work of God.

End of chapter 10 Chapter 11 Protest of the Princes One of the noblest testimonies ever uttered for the Reformation was the protest offered by the Christian princes of Germany at the Diet of Spires in 1529.

The courage, faith, and firmness of those men of God gained for succeeding ages liberty of thought and of conscience.

Their protest gave to the Reformed Church the name of Protestant.

And thus amid the strife and tumult of nations the Reformation had been left to strengthen and extend.

At last, however, the papal sovereigns had stifled their feuds that they might make common cause against the reformers.

The Diet of Spires in 1526 had given each state full liberty in matters of religion until the meeting of a general council, but no sooner had the dangers passed which secured this concession than the emperor summoned a second diet to convene at Spires in 1529 for the purpose of crushing heresy.

The princes were to be induced, by peaceable means if possible, to side against the Reformation, but if these failed Charles was prepared to resort to the sword.

But there were two other important diets or imperial meetings in the 1520s that helped fill out the story, both in Speyer, southern Germany, one in 1526 and one in 1529.

The first Diet of Speyer in 1526 was in response to that diet in 1521 where Luther is condemned as an outlaw.

Remember, it's the pope who calls him a heretic.

The emperor calls him an outlaw, both damning.

And then prior to that first diet, the Ottoman Turks handed the West a defeat at the Battle of Mohacs.

The emperor was battling with the pope, and when the diet couldn't reach a settlement, a window was opened for other reform movements to grow and spread.

And so that second Diet of Speyer, this in 1529, was called by the emperor, and this time the emperor and the church took steps against these new movements.

At the second Diet of Speyer, Anabaptists were explicitly condemned.

So the single word is Protestant or Protestantism.

The word Protestant first really became to be applied in 1529 at the Diet of Spires, which was basically all of these Diet of were meetings.

They were basically to decide in this particular case the fate of individuals, more specifically an individual, who was the voice who refused to be silenced in regard to the abuses and the church losing its way.

Now, there are a lot of people that are confused about this, but let me start off by saying, and I'm obviously, for those of you who know, I'm talking about Martin Luther.