Exsurge Domine

Exsurge Domine (Latin: " Rise up, Lord" - a mix of Bible quotations from Ps 7 and 80 LUT LUT) is a papal bull threatening excommunication, which was adopted 95 theses on June 15, 1520 by Pope Leo X in response to Martin Luther.

In the bull Luther is asked to withdraw within 60 days of the 41 represented in his works theses. In case of refusal Luther was threatened with excommunication. Luther's answer to the bull is the suggestion Miltitz ' created and directed to H. Mühlpfordt treatise "On the Freyheith a Christian", together with a final letter to Pope Leo X from the October 1520 ( post-dated to September 1520 ). Luther's position in the epistle is measured after the principle of sola scriptura:

" In addition, I can not tolerate rule or measure, interpret the Scriptures, seeing the word of God, the disciples of all freedom, not supposed to be even caught that. "

On December 10, 1520 after the expiry of the cancellation period, Luther burned his copy of the Bull - in response to the burning of his own works by representatives of the Church - in public. In the Saxon State Archives in Dresden, however, an original of the bull is obtained, which in 2004 the Saxon State Exhibition - was shown "Faith and Power Europe in the Age of the Reformation" in the hard rock castle in Torgau; also there is a copy in the Vatican archives. The Vatican responded consistently with the final excommunication by the bull of excommunication DECET Roman Pontificem of 3 January 1521.