Amentha dymally biography of martin luther

Luther's writings circulated widely, reaching France , England , and Italy as early as Students thronged to Wittenberg to hear Luther speak. He published a short commentary on Galatians and his Work on the Psalms. This early part of Luther's career was one of his most creative and productive.

Amentha dymally biography of martin luther

He had the theses checked for heresy and in December forwarded them to Rome. As Luther later notes, "the pope had a finger in the pie as well, because one half was to go to the building of St. Peter's Church in Rome". First, the Dominican theologian Sylvester Mazzolini drafted a heresy case against Luther, whom Leo then summoned to Rome. Anne's Priory , Luther defended himself under questioning by papal legate Cardinal Cajetan.

The pope's right to issue indulgences was at the centre of the dispute between the two men. More than writing his theses, Luther's confrontation with the church cast him as an enemy of the pope: "His Holiness abuses Scripture", retorted Luther. Luther made certain concessions to the Saxon, who was a relative of the Elector and promised to remain silent if his opponents did.

From that moment, he devoted himself to Luther's defeat. The meeting ended in a shouting match and initiated his ultimate excommunication from the Church. Excommunication Following the publication of his 95 Theses, Luther continued to lecture and write in Wittenberg. In June and July of Luther publicly declared that the Bible did not give the pope the exclusive right to interpret scripture, which was a direct attack on the authority of the papacy.

Finally, in , the pope had had enough and on June 15 issued an ultimatum threatening Luther with excommunication. On December 10, , Luther publicly burned the letter. Diet of Worms In March , Luther was summoned before the Diet of Worms , a general assembly of secular authorities. Again, Luther refused to recant his statements, demanding he be shown any scripture that would refute his position.

There was none. Friends helped him hide out at the Wartburg Castle. He gained many followers, and the Lutheran Church also received considerable support from German princes. When a peasant revolt began in , Luther denounced the peasants and sided with the rulers, whom he depended on to keep his church growing. Thousands of peasants were killed, but the Lutheran Church grew over the years.

Katharina von Bora In , Luther married Katharina von Bora, a former nun who had abandoned the convent and taken refuge in Wittenberg. Born into a noble family that had fallen on hard times, at the age of five Katharina was sent to a convent. The same year he was caught in a thunderstorm. Martin Luther became an Augustinian monk in Erfurt. He was ordained a priest in and in he became a doctor of theology.

Meanwhile, in Luther went on a trip to Rome. He was shocked by the lack of piety he found there. Luther also had a strong sense of his sinfulness. He studied the Bible diligently and he came to disagree with some of the teachings of the Catholic Church. Luther believed that salvation was obtained by faith only. It cannot be earned by good works.

Then in October , Martin Luther wrote 95 theses. Return to Wittenberg In Luther returned to Wittenberg and continued the writing that would fill the rest of his life. In he had written three of his most famous tracts written piece of propaganda, or material written with the intent of convincing people of a certain belief : To The Christian Nobility of the German Nation; On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church; and Of the Liberty of a Christian Man.

In Luther married Katherine von Bora, a nun who had left her convent. From Martin Luther. Luther's writings continued to flow steadily. Among the most important are the Great Catechism and the Small Catechism of and his collection of sermons and hymns, many of the latter, like Ein Feste Burg, still sung today. Debates with Theologians In — Luther entered into a discussion of free will with the great Erasmus — Luther's On the Will in Bondage remained his final statement on the question.

In he turned to the question of Christ's presence in the Eucharist communion with God in his Confession concerning the Lord's Supper. In Luther supervised, although he did not entirely agree with, the writing of Philipp Melancthon's — Augsburg Confession, one of the foundations of later Protestant thought. From on Luther spent as much time arguing with other Reformation leaders on matters of theology as with his Catholic opponents.

In Luther wrote his On Councils and Churches and witnessed in the following years the failure of German attempts to heal the wounds of Christianity. In the s Luther was stricken with disease a number of times, drawing great comfort from his family and from the devotional exercises that he had written for children. In he was called from a sickbed to settle the disputes of two German noblemen.

On the return trip he fell ill and died at Eisleben, the town of his birth, on February 18, New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press,