15 May 1576 A.D. Summary of Orthodox Patriarch Jeremias II's letter of 15 May 1576, in which he compares each article of the Augsburg confession to Orthodox Christian beliefs
15 May 1576 A.D. Summary of Orthodox Patriarch Jeremias II's letter of 15 May 1576, in which he compares each article of the Augsburg confession to Orthodox Christian beliefs Runciman, Stephen. “Luther Had His Chance.” The Great Church in Captivity. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1968. Webonline. N.d. http://orthodoxinfo.com/inquirers/tca_luther.aspx . Accessed 25 June 2014. Luther Had His Chance It was inevitable that, sooner or later, the Protestant Churches, protesting against Roman autocracy, should seek to find out about a Church which had made such a protest from the earliest times. Martin Luther's chief interest in the Eastern Question lay in the belief, which he shared with many of his evangelical contemporaries, and with many of the Greeks themselves before the fall of Constantinople, that the end of the world was near and that the Grand Turk was Antichrist: though he had an alternative candidat...