Treatise on Good Works, 1520

In sermons and pamphlets, Luther and his colleagues claimed that salvation came by faith alone and not by works. Although the better-known pamphlets of 1520 To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation Concerning the Improvement of the Christian Estate , The Babylonian Captivity of the Church , and The Freedom of a Christian would also appear, Timothy J. Wengert shows how Luthers Treatise on Good Works fulfilled Luthers own prediction that it would be one of the clearest and most accessible in