doi:10.7916/d8-j0b2-wg68Eyn Sermon geprediget vom Pawren zů Werdt, bey Nürmberg, am Sontag vor Fassnacht, vo[n] dem freyen willen des MennschenPeringer, DiepoldpamphletstextFree will and determinism"The peasant from Wöhrd-by-Nuremberg" was an appellation for the author of this sermon, an itinerant radical preacher at the time of German Peasants’ War. Its theme of the religious value of the layperson indicates how one of Luther’s defining emphases resonated with, and was used to energize, the uprisings that Luther would soon after denounce.