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A courtroom scene showing a priest giving testimony before a king seated on a throne.

Why was Luther summoned to the Diet of Worms?

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Martin Luther was summoned to the Diet in order to renounce or reaffirm his views in response to a Papal bull of Pope Leo X. In answer to questioning, he defended these views and refused to recant them
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