Edited by Gerald Boerner
Commentary:
After the conversion of Emperor Constantine in the 4th century, the Christian faith under the control of the Catholic Church and its Popes. Not until the beginning of the 16th century did someone (Martin Luther) successfully challenge the Catholic Church’s teaching. But a German Theologian and Augustinian Monk emerge to question the Church’s policy on Indulgences, among other things.
To express his objections, this monk, Martin Luther, sent a list of 95 theses (points of question) to his Archbishop. He nailed a copy to the church door in Wittenberg where he was on the faculty at the seminary. This proved to be the start of a much larger movement — The Protestant Reformation.
As an immediate consequence of his action, he was excommunicated by Pope Leo X and faced a trial for his offenses before the Diet of Worms. He was found guilty which resulted in “…declaring Luther an outlaw, banning his literature, and requiring his arrest…” The cascaded into the Reformation. Luther did much to democratize the Christian Church produce the dictomy of Catholic vs. Protestant that we have today.
So, let’s start our exploration in the opening battle of the Protestant Reformation… GLB
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Quotations Related to MARTIN LUTHER:
“Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.”
— Martin Luther
“Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.”
— Martin Luther
“Blood alone moves the wheels of history.”
— Martin Luther