Martin Luther
Uploaded by lovethegeneralidea on Feb 15, 2007
Some may ask: why do we make such a fuss over martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation? How and why did this German monk become a lightning rod for change in religion and society in Europe during the Renaissance? People don’t understand the significance of the situation and the importance of Martin Luther and his influence with the Protestant Reformation and how this affects us today. Many people back in the 1520’s thought of Luther as an insightful church leader and some thought of him as an ecclesiastical terrorist. His work, otherwise known as the ninety-five theses, was thought of as a highly controversial topic among the people of the Roman Catholic Church. Luther’s idea changed the world fundamentally and was the flashpoint where ideas and trends which had been smoldering in Europe started people talking and bigger ideas developed. On All Saints’ Day in 1517, Luther, Professor of theology at Wittenberg University in Saxony, posted the ninety-five theses on a church door that began the Protestant Reformation and started a revolution.
We have many important historical figures that have somehow made an impressionable and inspirational movement that changed and affects us still today. A man named Martin Luther was thought of as an insightful church leader as well as a freedom fighter to some and a heretic, apostate, profane ecclesiastical terrorist to others. Still some would consider him necessary evil and an unwitting catalyst that set aflame a volatile social and ecclesiastical situation. Luther thought of himself as a simple monk or Christian whose marveled straight-forward stand of conscience had turned him into one of the most talking about people of his time. That simple stand of conscience started an ecclesiastical shock wave that changed the course of western history. He had a sort of power and contained unique forces that forced most of the Roman Catholic Church to listen to him and reform. His ideas included: Why can’t we ask questions, questioning the church’s loyalty and honesty with the people. He was peevish and egomaniacal and temperamental and argumental. His single mindedness and enormous elf-confidence taught people to think for themselves and showed them the corrupt church. He had a straight belief in the rightness of his arguments and protested use of indulgences which forgave individual sin which was granted by the pope.
Many actions and ideas from Martin Luther made this German monk become a lightning rod...