# Luther’s September/December Testaments print Paul as a wedge against Rome

Date: 1522

## The fact

[Luther](/people/martin-luther)’s 1522 New Testament made Pauline justification a vernacular war on the papal church. Paul did not set 1522 type. Polarisation of Latin Christianity is the path.

## Context

Split grace-access improving.

[Paul the Apostle](/people/paul-the-apostle) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official Bible-society, Vatican, or library pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Britannica — Martin Luther (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Martin-Luther; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

A 1522 Pauline heading is a polarising reception, not a 55 CE autograph of Wittenberg.

A 1522 Pauline heading is a polarising reception, not a 55 CE autograph of Wittenberg.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Paul the Apostle: https://factrail.ai/people/paul-the-apostle

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://gruber.lstc.edu/luthers_bible/1522.php
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Martin-Luther

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/pa-luther-polarisation