Sunday, October 28, 2012
October 29 - November 2, 2012
In honor of the state championships won in soccer and jv/varsity volleyball, and the upcoming state championship in cross country and national championships to be won this week, I think this is a good week to take a break from the regular homework grind. This will stand in the place of a homework pass previously mentioned in regard to the volleyball state tournament. Instead, if you'd like to write an essay about the Reformation and post it this week, it will take the place of any future assignment this quarter that you choose. Remember, it was on October 31, Reformation Day, that Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses on the door of the cathedral in Wittenburg, Germany. Your essay can be about Luther or any other reformer; it must be 250 words but requires no responses to anyone else's essay. God bless!
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Martin Luther was a German monk, priest, professor of theology, and a very important part of the Protestant Reformation. He taught that salvation does not come through good works but received by God's grace to us through his son, Jesus Christ. Those who identify with his teachings are called Lutherans. He was married to Katharina von Bora. They, then, had six children: Hans(Johannes), Elisabeth, Magdalena, Martin, Paul, and Margarethe. Luther declared his intolerance for the Roman Church’s corruption on Halloween in 1517 by nailing his 95 Theses of Contention to the Wittenberg Church door. Little did he know that he would be exiled in the months following the Diet of Worms Council in 1521 that was designed to martyr him. He would also translate the New Testament into German for the first time from the 1516 Greek-Latin New Testament of Erasmus, and publish it in September of 1522. Luther also published a German Pentateuch in 1523, and another edition of the German New Testament in 1529. In the 1530’s he would go on to publish the entire Bible in German. On Halloween of 1517, Luther posted his ninety-five theses to the door at the church in Wittenburg. This document was an accusation of the Roman Catholic Church of their heresy upon heresy. Later, his theses were translated and printed to be spread over all of Europe. Martin Luther escaped martyrdom, and died of natural causes. His last words were, "Know that no one can have indulged in the Holy Writers sufficiently, unless he has governed churches for a hundred years with the prophets, such as Elijah and Elisha, John the Baptist, Christ and the apostles... We are beggars: this is true."
ReplyDeleteMartin Luther King was a man who is well-known; who was a German monk, priest, professor, and mostly started the Protestant Reformation. What I am mainly going to focus on is his most known one which is the Protestant Reformation and the 95 thesis. First the Protestant Reformation was a 16th century division between religious groups. This Reformation was started or sparked by the Thesis that Martin Luther King posted. The 95 Thesis is a main focus on the practices of the Catholic Church mostly talking about baptism. But the Protestant Reformation was mainly focused on ambitious leaders who wanted to extend their power and control to the Church. Many Historians believe that the Protestant Reformation ended the unity of the Medieval Christianity and started the modern era. Many failed to reform the effect in the church. In 1570 that was when Martin Luther King posted the 95 thesis in Wittenburg as we know today. Later, Martin Luther King said that salvation was granted by faith alone and that good works were not necessary in order to be saved. Martin Luther King was surprised that the church in Rome were selling indulges, which we have talked about in class. It seemed, to Martin Luther King that they were basically selling their salvation. However, Rome supported these indulges because it raised a good amount of money toward church projects. Lutheranism did have impact on the development of American history, but more importantly the efforts of the reformers of the reform movement.
ReplyDeleteThe Protestant Reformation was a powerful, religious movement that took place during the 1500’s in Europe. It first began in 1517 when a German monk named, Martin Luther, started protesting about some of the practices the Roman Catholic Church were doing. The Roman Catholic Church taught that a person could be saved by his or her own good works, instead of Martin Luther’s belief of justification by faith in Christ. Justification by faith meant that people are justified only through faith in God’s promise that Christ died in order for then to be saved. By this, when sinful people trusted that Christ died for their sins, Jesus would take upon himself God’s judgment seat and God would find the person as “not guilty” for Christ sake.
ReplyDeleteSo on October 31, 1517 at Wittenberg, Germany, Martin Luther nailed a series of statements that attacked the sale of indulgences (a pardon from punishments for sins) called the Ninety-Five Theses to the church door. In January 1521, Luther was summoned by Emperor Charles V to a diet (meeting) in Worms, Germany. At the diet they ordered Martin Luther to take back what he had said, but Luther replied that he would not retract what is clearly written in Scripture. In May of that year, the Edict of Worms was signed by the emperor that said Luther was an outlaw that someone could kill him without penalty. But Martin was protected by Fredrick the Wise who was Prince of Saxony. Martin Luther continued this Protestant movement until his death in 1546. Martin Luther along with many others helped open the way of truth about Salvation that is clearly written in the Bible.
Luther initiated the protestant reformation. The protestant reformation had the goal to separate from the catholic church. Luther had been enraged with the church's selling of Indulgences. Not only was the church misleading people about the authenticity of Indulgences but the funds from the sales were used to fund St. Peter's Basilica in rome. Citizens would not have minded them so much if they had only benefited their local area, but instead it wasn't. Luther responded in both a revolutionary and conservative way to these social and political questions of the day. As a revolutionary Luther responded to many of the church's lies and misleadings. In 1517 he published his 95 theses. These listed the 95 things he found wrong with the Catholic Church; from the sales of indulgences, to the many lies and misleadings. Then again, he made another revolutionary act when he nailed his 95 theses to the church in Wittenberg. The Catholic Church felt that they were always right, and Luther, in nailing his theses to the church in Wittenberg, made a huge proclamation against the church. At the Diet of Worms in a debate, he turned, for the first time, to the authority of scripture alone. He also questioned the church's infallibility. He was ordered to recant by Charles V, a very devout Catholic, but refused to do so, for it would be against scripture and against his own conscience. He was then excommunicated, and lived for one year in a supporter's castle while translating the New Testament of the Bible into German.
ReplyDeleteMartin Luther King was a German, a Monk, and more importantly at the head of the well known Protestant Reformation in the 1500's in Germany. While Martin Luther King was attending the Roman Catholic Church he began to question the churches practices, he was especially bothered by the selling of indulgences. The Roman Catholic Church taught that you could get into heaven simply by good works some even taught that you could pretty much buy your way into heaven, however, Luther believed in was by faith alone. Luther began to protest. On October 31, 1517, Luther nailed his 95 theses on the door of the Roman Catholic Church, calling for a reform in the Christian church. In this Thesis he emphasized these few points: people could only win salvation by faith in God’s forgiveness, the Pope is a false authority, and all people in Christ are equal, you don’t need a priest or bishop to tell the people what they believed and didn’t believe.This completely went against everything that the church had been teaching. Luther was soon called to the diet of worms (a meeting called by Emperor Charles V) where he was told to take back everything that he had said. Luther refused; he told them that their teachings went against scripture. He was then declared an outlaw, and was sent away to live at Wartburg Castel for 10 months, there he translated the Bible into German. Martin Luther King continued with his protest until his death in 1546.
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