Editing Johann Eck (section)

==Peace overtures==
For the [[Diet of Augsburg]], while still at Ingolstadt, Eck compiled what he considered to be 404 heretical propositions<ref>Text of Dr. John Eck's ''404 Theses'', or ''404 Articles''.  Samuel Macauley Jackson, ed., ''Papers of the American Society of Church History'', Second Series, Volume II, pp. 21–81,  G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London, [[Knickerbocker Press]], 1910. [https://books.google.com/books?id=gXwAAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA37&dq=%22404+theses%22+eck&lr= Books.Google.com]</ref> from the writings of the reformers<ref name=Schaff-Herzog/> as an aid to [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor]].

At Augsburg he was charged by the Emperor to draw up, in concert with twenty other theologians, a refutation of the Lutheran [[Augsburg Confession]], which had been delivered to the emperor on 25 June 1530, but he had to rewrite it five times before it suited the emperor.<ref name=EB1911/> It was known as the ''Confutatio pontificia'', embodying the Catholic reaction to the reformers. He also was involved in the fruitless negotiations with the Protestant theologians, including [[Philipp Melanchthon]], that took place at Augsburg; Eck with [[Wimpina]] and [[Cochlæus]] met the Lutherans in August.<ref>{{CathEncy|wstitle=Johann Eck}}</ref>

He was at the [[Colloquy of Worms (1540–1541)|Colloquy of Worms]] in 1540 where he showed some signs of a willingness to compromise.<ref name=EB1911>{{EB1911|wstitle = Eck, Johann Maier|volume=8|inline=1}}</ref> In January 1541 he renewed these efforts and succeeded in impressing Melanchthon as being prepared to give his assent to the main principles of the reformers, e.g. [[Sola fide|justification by faith]]; but at the [[Diet of Ratisbon (1541)|diet of Regensburg]] in the spring and summer of 1541, he reasserted his opposition.<ref name=Schaff-Herzog/> Afterwards Eck clashed with [[Martin Bucer]] over the latter's published report of the diet.