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scholar and monk, is that he was on what today would be called a fast career track in the Church hierarchy. He traveled from Wittenberg to Rome on Church business for the first time in 1510. But he was also an especially ascetic and contemplative Augustinian monk and teacher of theology, and found Rome a shockingly lax spiritual environment. In a universe where God and the Devil competed for souls, how could that be justified? Determined to work out his deep anxiety over his own salvation, he turned to Scriptur

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