Christian Freedom
Von der Freiheit eines Christenmenschen — On the Freedom of a Christian (1520)
Martin Luther — written for the pope, and meant it
A tract addressed to the pope by a man Rome had already condemned, with no polemics in it at all.
- Catch rate
- Not found in the wild
- Base research
- 262
- Stat total
- 312
Base stats
Every stat is a checkable fact about the actual book, not a designer's mood. Bars are drawn against the highest value any book reaches.
Why these numbers
The game's own explanation, as a reader sees it in the backpack.
A short tract, and the one thing of his that has never gone out of use in any tradition. Catholics quote it too.
It keeps free of all polemics on purpose. That costs it force and buys it something else.
Almost nothing to attack. It grants everything an opponent could want granted and then says the same thing anyway.
Widely read, in German and then in Latin, and it is short enough to finish in an evening.
Cited for this book
Written in October 1520, four months after the bull that threatened him with excommunication and two months before he burned it, and sent to Leo X with a courteous covering letter. The leading idea is two sentences that contradict each other and are both true: by faith a Christian is lord of all and subject to none; by love he is servant of all and subject to every one. This is the last thing Luther wrote while he still thought a letter to Rome might help.
Moves learned
By levelling up. A book that develops keeps what it knew and learns the rest on its new schedule.
| Lv | Move | Type | Cat. | Pwr | Acc | PP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lord of All, Servant of All | Faith | Argument | 86 | 100% | 10 |
| 1 | Random Verse | Bible | Argument | 10 | 100% | 30 |
| 44 | Chapter… | Bible | Scripture | — | — | 12 |
| 46 | No Iron Can Hew It Down | Ethics | Argument | 82 | 100% | 10 |
| 48 | The Whole Life of Believers | Soteriology | Argument | 76 | 100% | 15 |
| 51 | The Secret Testimony | Presupposition | Argument | 88 | 100% | 10 |
| 53 | My Poor Monk | Faith | Argument | 74 | 100% | 15 |