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Describe the man Martin Luther at the advent of the Reformation.
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Martin was an Augustinian monk in the strictest order. He had a Doctor of Bible degree. He gave biblical lectures, especially in the Psalms. He was part of the humanism movement, referring to ancient Greek, Latin and ancient Hebrew literature. This benefitted his students at the time. Also at this time he was lecturing at the University of Wittenberg. Between 1516 and 1518 he developed the series of disputations which focussed on Luther’s rejection of the sinner’s natural ability to keep God’s commands as in Romans – to do good in God’s sight – earning grace. He started to find much medieval theology had been taken out of biblical context and that his parishioners were saying they did not need to perform good works as he still prescribed for them, because of the indulgences they purchased to get out of purgatory. This led to what is called the Reformation.
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The Protestant Reformation began in Wittenberg, Germany, on October 31, 1517, when Martin Luther , a teacher and a monk, published a document he called Disputation on the Power of Indulgences, or Ninety-Five Thesis. It was a debate of a series of issues around the pastoral care of the people of God. This document of was a series of 95 ideas about Christianity that he invited people to debate with him. There are some important ideas about the Ninety-Five Thesis that are not to be denied. 1. The first thesis expresses a proposition that Luther would defend his entire life. That a life of a Christian is a life of penance, not going to the sacrament of penance, but in a sense of daily repentance, a daily dying to our sin. Martin Luther believed that the Bible is the central source of religious authority and that salvation is reached through faith and not deeds, shaped the core of Protestantism. Luther argued that the church had to be reformed. Martin Luther’s main goal was to show people how to reach toward God through personal faith. Martin Luther stood up to his superiors and demanded to recant his teachings and philosophies in which the case being that Luther replied, ” I will not recant”. Martin Luther believed in the Holy Scriptures that everyone can seek repentance, and that faith alone, not deeds would lead to salvation.
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01212022 Historically, It can be argued that Dr. Martin Luther was not only a conflicted individual in how he practiced and taught his faith as he understood it through his Augustinian Colleagues. but was when he promoted his enlightened beliefs-rather stubborn in how he stood up for them. I claim this in light of how He I believe stood up to his Superiors whom demanded he recant his teachings/philosophies with the exclamation of to paraphrase him ” These are the Holy Scriptures, and of them I will not recant.”