{"id":5939,"date":"2022-04-01T00:29:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T00:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/?p=5939"},"modified":"2023-06-27T01:49:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T01:49:10","slug":"spring-2022-how-luther-became-the-mythical-here-i-stand-hero-by-samuel-l-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/?p=5939","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2022 &#8211; How Luther Became the Mythical \u2018Here I Stand\u201d Hero by Samuel L.Young"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On April 18, 1521, Martin Luther made his famous address before CharlesV and the Diet of Worms.  The earliest reports of the Diet attested that Luther switched to German for his final declaration. An account printed in Strasbourg the following month rendered the line as \u201cGOTT HELF MIR ARMEN. Amen.\u20199 and included a portrait of Luther being anointed by the Holy Spirit.1 The more standard report on the Diet extended the line to \u201cIch kan nicht anderst, hie[r] stehe ich, Gott helffmir,Amen. \u201d2 The definitive rendering of Luther s declaration, however, would come from the pen of his cobelligerent Philip Melanchthon, who, in his biographical  introduction to the Latin edition of Luthers works, reported that the Reformer had said \u201c<em>Hie[r] stehe ich \/ Ich kan nie anders \/ Gott helffmir \/Amen.<\/em>\u201d3<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/LQ36-1-Young.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click Here<\/a> to read the full article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 18, 1521, Martin Luther made his famous address before CharlesV and the Diet of Worms.  The earliest reports of the Diet attested that Luther switched to German for his final declaration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5939"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6062,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939\/revisions\/6062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lutheranquarterly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}