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1 What It Means to be: Protestant Part 1 Bill Petro your friendly neighborhood historian 1

2 Class: billpetro.com/lighthouse Luther: billpetro.com/history-of-martin-luther 2

3 Objectives By the end of this session you should be able to Identify the proto-reformers Know key events & people in Luther s early life Describe key aspects of Luther s teachings 3

4 Theological Definition Theological Darkness Theological Reformation 4

5 Formulation Sacramentalization Rediscovery Re-evaluation Origen Augustine Lombard Acquinas Luther Calvin Kant Schleirmacher Wycliffe Huss Erasmus 5

6 6

7 Reformation Questions How is a person saved? Where does Religious Authority lie? What is the Church? What is the essence of Christian living? 7

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10 1 0 03/14/2010

11 1 1 John Wycliffe: Morning Star of the Reformation" Oxford professor Primacy of Scripture and Christ over the Pope Translated first English Bible From Latin Vulgate, years before Gutenberg Attacked transubstantiation Condemned: Dogma of purgatory Use of relics Pilgrimages Indulgences.

12 John Huss Dean of Philosophy, University of Prague Translated Wycliffe into Czech (Bohemia) Jesus is only Pontiff Appeared before Council under protection of Emperor Sigismund July 1415, burned at stake guilty of over 30 charges Today, you are burning a goose 12

13 1 3 03/14/2010

14 Tombstone of Huss prosecutor: Cardinal Zacharias, in front of the altar of the Erfurt Augustinian Monastery 14

15 1 5 Desiderius Erasmus Greatest of all Humanists In Praise of Folly Satire on priests, blind leading blind Superstition of indulgences Freedom of the Will Greek NT, 1516.

16 1 6 Luther: Born in Eisleben Eisleben, Germany, on November 10, 1483 In this house Dr. Martin Luther was born, the 10th of November God's Word is Luther s lore; which abides for evermore.

17 1 7 Baptistery In SS Peter and Paul 03/14/2010

18 1 8 Nativity with Miners and a Lamp 03/14/2010

19 1 9 Mary, Jesus, and St. Anne 03/14/2010

20 2 0 Luther: Early Childhood in Mansfeld Father found work in local copper mines Owner/part-owner of several mines & smelters Member of City Council Martin begins Latin school in 1491 Lived here

21 2 1 Hans and Margaretha Luder Hans: line of peasants Hannah : line of middleclass professionals Family rose to middleclass A free peasant is nobody s slave small, short, and swarthy Harsh.

22 2 2 Luther: Boarding school in Magdeburg 1497, age 13 Brethren of the Common Life Imitation of Christ. 03/14/2010

23 2 3 Luther: Grew up in Eisenach Sang for his supper Bread in God s name Loved the Lute! Good student. 03/14/2010

24 2 4 Luther: School in Eisenach 1498, age 14 Parish school of St. George Stays with relatives, later Heinrich Schalbe, classmate s father. 03/14/2010

25 03/14/

26 2 6 Luther: University of Erfurt 1501, age 17 or : BA 1505: MA Studies Law Father gives him Corpus Iuris books. 03/14/2010

27 2 7 Thunderstorm July 2, 1505 Returning from parent s home to Erfurt "St. Anne Help me! I will become a monk." 03/14/2010

28 2 8 Luther: Monk July 17, 1505 Black Monastery in Erfurt Augustinian Hermits July 1506 (22) takes vows 1507 studies theology. 03/14/2010

29 2 9 Black Friars Augustinian Monastery, Erfurt 03/14/2010

30 3 0 Gate to Cloister 03/14/2010

31 April 3, 1507, ordained at Augustinian Monastery at Erfurt 03/14/

32 May 2, 1507, 1st Mass St. Severus, Erfurt 03/14/

33 Rome 33

34 3 4 Luther in Rome Stayed at: Convent of St. Maria del Popolo

35 Piazza del Popolo 03/14/

36 Scala Sancta Climbing the Scala Sancta painfully on his knees among the retinue of pilgrims, and struck as with a flash by these words of St. Paul, The just by faith shall live 36

37 03/14/

38 October 19, 1512 Doctorate, age 29 Luther: Professor Psalms: Romans: Galatians: Hebrews:

39 Luther: Conversion May 1515: Wittenberg Monastery: Tower 39

40 Born Again - Romans 1:17 "In it the righteousness of God is revealed, "that had stood in my way. For I hated that word "righteousness of God," which, according to the use and custom of all the teachers, I had been taught to understand philosophically regarding the formal or active righteousness, as they call it, with which God is righteous and punishes the unrighteous sinner. "In it the righteousness of God is revealed, as it is written, 'He who through faith is righteous shall live.'" There I began to understand that the righteousness of God is that by which the righteous lives by a gift of God, namely by faith. 40

41 John Tetzel Dominican doctor 41

42 Indulgences Freed the holder from the temporal penalty of sin Popular since the Crusades 42

43 Wittenberg Door October 31,

44 Luther: Against Indulgences 1517, by John Tetzel Luther writes: Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences 03/14/

45 Luther s Excommunication June 15, 1520 Pope Leo X Exurge Domine Arise, Lord, and defend thine own vineyard against the wild beast that is devouring it. Luther has 60 days to recant Luther s books are burned. 45

46 Luther burns Exurge Domine 46

47 1-Word Summary Catholic Church Merit Luther Justification 47

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