Landgrave Philip of Hesse took this opportunity and created an assembly of "spiritual and temporal estates" at Homberg on October 20, 1526, "to deal in the grace of the Almighty with Christian matters and disputes."
To facilitate discussion, the former Franciscan preacher François Lambert (son of a Papal official in Avignon and, at the time, a Protestant reformer) presented 158 articles for debate (paradoxa), which had been posted on the church doors of Homberg.
In the afternoon, Adam Kraft of Fulda translated Lambert's theses into German and challenged anyone who found them "At variance with God's Word" to speak out.
He contested Landgrave Philip of Hesse's authority to hold a synod, enact ecclesiastical changes, or legislate on matters of Christian faith, arguing that these privileges belonged to the Pope, the bishops, and the clergy.
[3] On the synod's final day, Master Johann Sperber, of Waldau, near Kassel, attempted to justify the invocation of Mary, the Holy Mother of Jesus Christ, citing the Angelical salutation from the Gospel of Luke.