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which doctrine of luther's was a marked decisive break with the medieval idea of vocation as a calling to a monastic life

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Luther and his monastic mentor, Johann von Staupitz, sat under a pear tree in a garden near their cloister at Wittenberg. The vicar-general told young Luther he should become a professor of theology and preacher. Luther was taken aback. “It will be the death of me!” he objected.

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