Charles Beard: "Martin Luther and the Reformation in Germany," Ch. 5, 19...

Luther at Wittenberg presides over and practices an anti-Aristotelianism, preferring the Bible and Augustine. Wittenberg is drawing young students around Luther. “All this culminated in a series of Ninety-seven Theses, `Contra Scholasticam Theologiam,’ which Francis Gunther of Nordhausen, a candidate for the degree of Baccalaureus Biblicus, offered to defend under Luther's presidency, on the 4th of September 1517. Of these, the forty-first, `Almost the whole of Aristotle's ethics is the worst enemy of grace;’ the forty-third, `It is an error to say that without Aristotle no man becomes a theologian;’ and the forty-fourth, `No one becomes a theologian unless he becomes one without Aristotle,’ are decisive enough” (194). And then, Tetzel is on the frontiers of Saxon.

Life, as Luther once knew it, would change.