CHURCH HISTORY II Lesson 2 Martin Luther, Part 1: The Church is Shaken

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CHURCH HISTORY IILesson 2 Martin Luther, Part
1The Church is Shaken
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Every man must do two things alone he must do
his own believing and his own dying.
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the
pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the
great pope, Self.
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go
against conscience is neither right nor safe.
Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God.
Amen.
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Ancient Church History
Medieval Church History
Modern Church History
Reformation Counter Reformation
Apostolic Church
The First Medieval Pope
The Rise of the Holy Roman Empire
Apostolic Fathers
Rationalism, Revivalism, Denominationalism
The Crusades
Church Councils
Revivalism, Missions, Modernism
Golden Age of Church Fathers
The Papacy in Decline
The Pre-Reformers
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300 Years Before Luther was Mark by Turmoil
The Babylonian Captivity 1309-1376
Kings controlled Papacy
Rise of Nationalism
Most of the French Popes Corrupt
The Great Schism 1378-1417
French Italian Popes true successors to St.
Peter
Council of Pisa elected a 3rd Pope 1409
Martin V elected Pope
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300 Years Before Luther was Mark by Turmoil
The Babylonian Captivity 1309-1376
The Great Schism 1378-1417
Peter Waldo (1140-1217) John Wycliffe
(1320-84) John Huss (1369-1415) Girolamo
Savonarola (1452 - 98)
Muslim Turks conquered the Eastern Empire
Renaissance capture the papacy
Church became a hierarchy of officials that
established doctrine and supplanted the Bible
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Martin Luther 1483 - 1546
Pre-Conversion
Break
Organization
Struggle
29 yrs unconverted Converted in 1512? Studies
teaches N.T. theology 95 Theses Oct 31, 1517
debates writings excommunication hiding
translation church liturgy theology confession
1529 Diet of Speier 1530 Diet of
Augsburg Schmalkalden League Philip of
Hesse 1547 War 1555 Peace of Augsburg
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29 yrs unconverted
Family
The Luther family were very poor, but honest,
industrious and pious people from the lower and
uncultivated ranks. Schaff
Temperment
The hardships of Luthers youth and the want of
refinedbreeding show their effects in his
writings and actions. Theylimited his influence
among the higher and cultivated classes,but
increased his power over the middle and lower
classes. He was a man of the people and for the
people. Schaff
Music
Education
July 1505
Converted in 1512
29 yrs unconverted Converted in 1512? Studies
teaches N.T. theology 95 Theses Oct 31, 1517
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Break
debates writings excommunication hiding
Heidelberg Debate
Diet of Augsburg
Karl von Miltitz
John Eck Leipzig Debate
Prolific publications
Excommunication by Pope Leo X
Diet of Worms Charles V
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Organization
translation church liturgy theology confession
Shorter Catechism
Church Liturgy
On Monastic Vows
Against the Plundering MurderousHordes of Peasant
Bondage of the Will
Augsburg Confession
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Organization
Radicals Christian Humanists Peasants 1525
Marburg Colloquy
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General Baptist
Methodist
Presbyterian
Lutheran
Reformed
Anabaptist
Anglican
Roman Catholic Church
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Struggle
1529 Diet of Speier 1530 Diet of
Augsburg Schmalkalden League Philip of
Hesse 1547 War 1555 Peace of Augsburg
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Summary Lessons from theLife of Martin Luther
1. The major contribution of Luther was his
reasserting a grace alonecentered theology into
the heart and soul of theology.
2. The importance of the authority of the
scriptures.
3. Luther was both radical conservative in his
affect on the lifeof the church. It is not
loving or godly to take Gods people down
acourse of change or reformation faster than
their consciences havebeen convinced from
Scripture.
4. The sovereign hand of God in Luthers life to
help directHis church. (personality
circumstances)
5. Need to bear with other peoples personalities.
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther, from whom this protest came, is
one of the few individualsof whom it may be said
that the history of the world was profoundly
alteredby his work. Not an organizer or a
politician, and by no means a self- declared
revolutionary, he moved people by the power of a
profoundreligious faith, resulting in unshakable
trust in God and in direct, personal relations to
God, which brought a certainty of salvation that
left no roomfor the elaborate hierarchical and
sacramental structures of the Middle Ages.
Williston Walker A History of the Christian Church