Editing Johannes Agricola (section)

===Restoration and later life===
As a consequence of the [[Martin Luther#Antinomian controversy|bitter controversy]] with Luther, in 1540 Agricola left Wittenberg secretly for [[Berlin]], where he published a letter addressed to [[Frederick III, Elector of Saxony]], which was generally interpreted as a recantation of his prior views.  Luther, however, seems not to have so accepted it, and Agricola remained at Berlin.

[[Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg]], having taken Agricola into his favour, appointed him court preacher and general superintendent.  He held both offices until his death in 1566, and his career in Brandenburg was one of great activity and influence.

Along with [[Julius von Pflug]], [[bishop of Naumburg-Zeitz]], and [[Michael Helding]], titular [[bishop of Sidon]], he prepared the [[Augsburg Interim]] of 1548, a proposed settlement under which Protestants would accept all Catholic authority, being permitted to retain the Protestant teaching on [[communion under both kinds]] and married clergy, but otherwise compelled to accept Catholic doctrine and practice, including the rejection of [[justification by faith]] alone.<ref>[[Peter Stanford]], ''Martin Luther: Catholic dissident'', pg 379, 385.</ref>  From that time, he was an outcast among Protestant theologians. It was an irony that one of the most radical Reformers ended his life viewed as having capitulated to Catholics.

He endeavored in vain to appease the [[Adiaphora|Adiaphoristic]] controversy.

He died during an epidemic of [[Black Death|plague]] on 22 September 1566 in Berlin.