Happy Reformation Day!
Chris Castaldo helpfully explains what happened when Luther was asked to recant before the Diet of Worms in 1521.
And here’s the scene from the contemporary Luther film:
The following is an hour-long PBS documentary (caveat emptor!) that includes commentary by Alister McGrath (Reformation scholar and author of Christianity’s Dangerous Idea: The Protestant Revolution from the Sixteenth Century to the Twenty-First). It appears to have some nice reconstructions:
