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“Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott [A Mighty Fortress Is Our God]”

Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott [A Mighty Fortress Is Our God] (c. 1529) Inferred

Martin Luther (1483–1546) · c. 1529

InferredFuller names 'Luther's Judgment Hymn'; this refers to 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott' ('A Mighty Fortress Is Our God'), Luther's famous Reformation hymn. Fuller calls this 'Luther's Judgment Hymn' — 'Judgment' is a common 19th-century alternate title or epithet for 'Ein feste Burg', reflecting its use as a hymn invoking divine justice and the Last Day.

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Papers on Literature and Art

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“The trumpet call of Luther's Judgment Hymn sounds from the depths of a nature capable of all human emotions, or it could not make the human ear vibrate as it does.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.

Inferred Fuller names 'Luther's Judgment Hymn'; this refers to 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott' ('A Mighty Fortress Is Our God'), Luther's famous Reformation hymn. Fuller calls this 'Luther's Judgment Hymn' — 'Judgment' is a common 19th-century alternate title or epithet for 'Ein feste Burg', reflecting its use as a hymn invoking divine justice and the Last Day.