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41) Martin Luther
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Martin Luther nailed his treatise to the doors of the Wittenberg Cathedral and forever changed the Christian world. This previously obscure German monk unleashed forces that would plunge Europe into war and chaos. He offered the Christian world a new vision of man's relationship with God and, in turn, redefined man's relationship with authority in general, bringing the collapse of the medieval world and the birth of the modern age.
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The sixteenth-century German friar whose public conflict with the medieval Roman Church triggered the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther was neither an unblemished saint nor a single-minded religious zealot according to this provocative new biography by Scott Hendrix. The author presents Luther as a man of his time: a highly educated scholar and teacher and a gifted yet flawed human being driven by an optimistic yet ultimately unrealized vision...
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This sophisticated book commemorates the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation by examining the details of Martin Luther's life and his lasting legacy.
A fascinating look at the ideas that founded the Protestant Church Wittenberg, Germany, 1517: Martin Luther publishes 95 theses criticizing the practices of the Roman Catholic Church. With that one defiant act, a conflict begins-a conflict that will spark the Protestant Reformation and...
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"The most profound characteristic of Western Europe in the Middle Ages was its cultural and religious unity, a unity secured by a common alignment with the Pope in Rome, and a common language-- Latin-- for worship and scholarship. The Reformation shattered that unity, and the consequences are still with us today. In [this book], Diarmaid MacCulloch, author of ... 'Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, ' examines not only the Reformation's...
54) The Reformation
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Historical overview of the Protestant Reformation from its initial stirrings in medieval times through the Counter-Reformation, and its cultural effects.
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Interviews about and dramatic represenations of the life of Martin Luther.
The great drama of Martin Luther's life comes alive in this vivid portrayal of the penniless monk's quest for truth--a quest that would re-shape the church, and the world. Perhaps the most faithful movie about Luther's life ever made, the film does not shy away from the deep theological questions--and answers--that mark Luther as one of the most influential people of the last...
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A biography of Luther. Pp. 290-297 deal with his attitude to the Jews, citing passages from his letter to Josel von Rosheim (1536), his pamphlet "Of the Jews and Their Lies" (1543), and the "Admonition against the Jews" added to his last sermon (1546). He called on rulers not to tolerate Jewish economic exploitation and to take strong measures against them as enemies of God - i.e. to burn their synagogues, confiscate their books, and expel them.
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