Johann Tetzel (1465 in Pirna – 11 August 1519) was a German Dominican preacher accepted for affairs indulgences.
Saturday, 17 December 2011
Life
Tetzel was built-in in Pirna, Saxony, and advised canon and aesthetics at the university of his built-in city.dubious – discuss He entered the Dominican adjustment in 1489, accomplished some success as a preacher, and was in 1502 commissioned by the pope to deliver the ceremony indulgence, which he did throughout his life. In 1509 he was fabricated an inquisitor of Poland, and in 1517 Pope Leo X fabricated him abettor of indulgences for all Germany.
He acquired the amount of Licentiate of Sacred Canon in the University of Frankfurt an der Oder, 1517, and that of Doctor of Sacred Theology, 1518, by defending, in two disputations, the article of indulgences adjoin Luther. The allegation that he awash abounding absolution for sins not yet committed, acquired abundant scandal; Martin Luther advised his accomplishments evil, and began to deliver aboveboard adjoin him.
In 1517, it was believed that Tetzel was aggravating to accession money for the advancing about-face of St. Peter's Basilica, admitting the money went appear allowance the Archbishop of Mainz, Albert of Brandenburg, beneath whose ascendancy Tetzel was operating, to pay off the debts he had incurred in accepting the acceding of the Pope to his accretion of the Archbishopric. Luther was aggressive to address his Ninety-Five Theses, in part, due to Tetzel's accomplishments during this aeon of time.1
He was additionally accursed (though after pardoned) for immorality. It became all-important to abjure Tetzel and, back he apparent that Karl von Miltitz had accused him of perpetrating abundant frauds and embezzlements, he withdrew, burst in spirit, ashore in health, into the Dominican abbey in Leipzig. Miltitz was after discredited to the point area his claims backpack no actual weight.
Tetzel died in Leipzig in 1519. At the time of his death, Tetzel had collapsed into blemish and was alone by the public. On his deathbed, Tetzel accustomed a advantageously bound accord from Martin Luther, advertence that the adolescent (i.e. the scandal) had a altered father.2
He acquired the amount of Licentiate of Sacred Canon in the University of Frankfurt an der Oder, 1517, and that of Doctor of Sacred Theology, 1518, by defending, in two disputations, the article of indulgences adjoin Luther. The allegation that he awash abounding absolution for sins not yet committed, acquired abundant scandal; Martin Luther advised his accomplishments evil, and began to deliver aboveboard adjoin him.
In 1517, it was believed that Tetzel was aggravating to accession money for the advancing about-face of St. Peter's Basilica, admitting the money went appear allowance the Archbishop of Mainz, Albert of Brandenburg, beneath whose ascendancy Tetzel was operating, to pay off the debts he had incurred in accepting the acceding of the Pope to his accretion of the Archbishopric. Luther was aggressive to address his Ninety-Five Theses, in part, due to Tetzel's accomplishments during this aeon of time.1
He was additionally accursed (though after pardoned) for immorality. It became all-important to abjure Tetzel and, back he apparent that Karl von Miltitz had accused him of perpetrating abundant frauds and embezzlements, he withdrew, burst in spirit, ashore in health, into the Dominican abbey in Leipzig. Miltitz was after discredited to the point area his claims backpack no actual weight.
Tetzel died in Leipzig in 1519. At the time of his death, Tetzel had collapsed into blemish and was alone by the public. On his deathbed, Tetzel accustomed a advantageously bound accord from Martin Luther, advertence that the adolescent (i.e. the scandal) had a altered father.2
Doctrinal position
Tetzel abstract Catholic article in attention to indulgences for the dead, but his teaching on indulgences for the active was orthodox. He became accepted for a brace attributed to him: :"As anon as a bread in the case rings / the body from affliction springs."3 German: "Wenn die Münze im Kästlein klingt, die Seele in den Himmel springt". This often-quoted adage was exaggerated. German Catholic historian of the Papacy, Ludwig von Pastor explains4:
The Papal Bull of allowance gave no sanction whatever to this proposition. It was a ambiguous bookish opinion, alone by the Sorbonne in 1482, and afresh in 1518, and absolutely not a article of the Church, which was appropriately break put advanced as arbitrary truth.
Pastor addendum that the arch theologian Cardinal Thomas Cajetan against these extravagances.
The Papal Bull of allowance gave no sanction whatever to this proposition. It was a ambiguous bookish opinion, alone by the Sorbonne in 1482, and afresh in 1518, and absolutely not a article of the Church, which was appropriately break put advanced as arbitrary truth.
Pastor addendum that the arch theologian Cardinal Thomas Cajetan against these extravagances.
References
^ "Johann Tetzel" Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911 Edition. Retrieved Jan. 26, 2007
^ Henry, Ganss (1913). "Johann Tetzel". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
^ Thesis 55 of Tetzel's One Hundred and Six Theses. These "Anti-theses" were a acknowledgment to Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses and were fatigued up by Tetzel’s acquaintance and above Professor, Konrad Wimpina. Theses 55 & 56 (responding to Luther's 27th Theses) read: "For a body to fly out, is for it to access the eyes of God, which can be hindered by no interruption, accordingly he errs who says that the body cannot fly out afore the bread can chime in the basal of the chest." In, The about-face in Germany, Henry Clay Vedder, 1914, Macmillan Company, p. 405. 1 Animam purgatam evolare, est eam visione dei potiri, quod nulla potest intercapedine impediri. Quisquis appropriately dicit, non citius aggregation animam volare, quam in fundo cistae denarius possit tinnire, errat. In: D. Martini Lutheri, Opera Latina: Varii Argumenti, 1865, Henricus Schmidt, ed., Heyder and Zimmer, Frankfurt am Main & Erlangen, vol. 1, p. 300. (Reprinted: Nabu Press, 2010, ISBN 1142405516 ISBN 9781142405519). 2
^ Ludwig von Pastor, The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages, Ralph Francis Kerr, ed., 1908, B. Herder, St. Louis, Volume 7, pp. 347–348. 3
^ Henry, Ganss (1913). "Johann Tetzel". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
^ Thesis 55 of Tetzel's One Hundred and Six Theses. These "Anti-theses" were a acknowledgment to Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses and were fatigued up by Tetzel’s acquaintance and above Professor, Konrad Wimpina. Theses 55 & 56 (responding to Luther's 27th Theses) read: "For a body to fly out, is for it to access the eyes of God, which can be hindered by no interruption, accordingly he errs who says that the body cannot fly out afore the bread can chime in the basal of the chest." In, The about-face in Germany, Henry Clay Vedder, 1914, Macmillan Company, p. 405. 1 Animam purgatam evolare, est eam visione dei potiri, quod nulla potest intercapedine impediri. Quisquis appropriately dicit, non citius aggregation animam volare, quam in fundo cistae denarius possit tinnire, errat. In: D. Martini Lutheri, Opera Latina: Varii Argumenti, 1865, Henricus Schmidt, ed., Heyder and Zimmer, Frankfurt am Main & Erlangen, vol. 1, p. 300. (Reprinted: Nabu Press, 2010, ISBN 1142405516 ISBN 9781142405519). 2
^ Ludwig von Pastor, The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages, Ralph Francis Kerr, ed., 1908, B. Herder, St. Louis, Volume 7, pp. 347–348. 3
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