Bode adedeji biography of martin luther

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His son was on the verge of becoming a lawyer. He was ordained in 1507, began teaching at the University of Wittenberg and in 1512 was made a doctor of Theology. By now, Luther was challenging the very foundations of the Church - he even claimed that the Pope had no powers at all.

Following the debate, Pope Leo X decided that Luther should be excommunicated.

Whether he actually said, “Here I stand, I can do no other” is uncertain. One other brother, James, lived to adulthood.

The decision to enter the monastery was a difficult one. Hans Luther decided that he would do whatever was necessary to see that Martin could become a lawyer. On June 15th the pope issued a bull (Exsurge Domini – Arise O'Lord) threatening Luther with excommunication.

Martin was the second son born to Hans and Magarete (Lindemann) Luther. In his final years he wrote polemics against the Jews, the papacy and the Anabaptists, a radical wing of the reforming movement.

Luther died on 18 February 1546 in Eisleben.

This turned him against many of the major teachings of the Catholic Church. Luther went into hiding at Wartburg Castle.

Thousands of people travelled to Tetzel to invest their money in these ‘powerful’ indulgences.

Luther strongly disapproved of this.

Quotations

The Holy Scriptures surpass in efficaciousness all the arts and all the sciences of the philosophers and jurists; these, though good and necessary to life here below, are vain and of no effect as to what concerns the life eternal.

In 1522, he returned to Wittenberg and in 1525 married Katharina von Bora, a former nun, with whom he had six children.
Luther then became involved in the controversy surrounding the Peasants War (1524 - 1526), the leaders of which had used Luther's arguments to justify their revolt. In the Heidelberg Disputation, we see the signs of a maturing in Luther's thought and new clarity surrounding his theological perspective – the Theology of the Cross.

(Table Talk)
If I thoroughly appreciated these first words of the Lord’s Prayer, Our Father, which art in Heaven, and really believed that God, who made heaven and earth, and all creatures, and has all things in his hand, was my Father, then should I certainly conclude with myself, that I also am a lord of heaven and earth, that Christ is my brother, Gabriel my servant, Raphael my coachman, and all the angels my attendants at need, given unto me by my heavenly Father, to keep me in the path, that unawares I knock not my foot against a stone.

He had discovered (or recovered) the doctrine of justification by grace alone. In July 1520, Leo X issued a papal Bull - "Exsurge Domine" which condemned Luther’s beliefs and ordered the public burning of Luther’s work. The school stressed Latin and a bit of logic and rhetoric. In 1501 he enrolled in the University of Erfurt where he studied the basic course for a Master of Arts (grammar, logic, rhetoric, metaphysics, etc.).

Charles V was a devout catholic but he recognised that Luther had huge public support and was wary about angering the German princes and public.