Martin+Luther


 * Nick Evans**

Big idea: both a Revlutionary and a Conservative

Theses: Martin Luther acted as a revolutionary through his Protestant outcries against the Catholic church and as a conservative in his fear of upsetting the political order during the Peasant's revolt.


 * Religious revolutionary**
 * -questioning "how can i be saved?"
 * studied bible deeply
 * God's grace freely gives salvation, not good works etc
 * known as justification through faith alone
 * -against indulgences
 * -Pope Leo X hawked indulgences for St. Peter Basilica
 * -Albrecht of Brandenburg
 * -Johann tetzel
 * -95 Theses
 * -Pope called him a drunken german unaware of what he was talking about
 * -Leipzig Debate
 * -Johann Eck
 * -went past indulgences, questioning authority of popes/councils
 * Edict of Worms
 * expected to recant in front of Charles V
 * said conscience>church authority
 * excommunicated 1521
 * Church did not have sole authority over Scripture
 * Conservative**
 * Peasant's War
 * 1520's
 * German lords continued peasants abuse and demands for taxes/services
 * Thomas Munster roused peasants
 * Luther's role
 * //Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants//
 * ordered princes to kill the peasants
 * was against Church authority, NOT social revolution
 * needed support of Princes to break from church
 * good friend friend of Frederick III
 * he founded the school where Luther taught
 * translated bible into German Vernacular

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