Church History 10001700 A'D' Part 3: Luther The Early Years Mark Hagen June 20, 2004

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Church History 1000-1700 A.D.Part 3 Luther
The Early YearsMark HagenJune 20, 2004
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Church History 1000-1700 A.D.Part 3 Luther
The Early Years
Timeline1000-1500 A.D.
Constantinople Sacked1204
East-West Schism1054
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1212FrenchChildrens Crusade
10951st Crusade
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The value of the period 14th and 15th
centuries lies in the demonstration it gives
that reform of the papal church from within was
impossible. - Bruce Shelley Church History in
Plain Language, p.233
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The Early Years
Martin Luthers parents, Hans and Margareteby
Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1527
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I greatly longed to understand Pauls Epistle to
the Romans and nothing stood in the way but that
one expression, the justice of God, because I
took it to mean that justice whereby God is just
and deals justly in punishing the unjust. My
situation was that, although an impeccable monk,
I stood before God as a sinner troubled in
conscience, and I had no confidence that my merit
would assuage ease the anger Him. I did not
love a just and angry God, but rather hated and
murmured against Him. Yet I clung to the dear
Paul and had a great yearning to know what he
meant. . . .
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. . . Night and day I pondered until I saw the
connection between the justice of God and the
statement that the just shall live by his
faith. Then I grasped that the justice of God
is that righteousness by which through grace and
sheer mercy God justifies us through faith.
Thereupon I felt myself to be reborn and to have
gone through open doors into paradise. - Martin
Luther Roland Bainton, Here I Stand, p.49
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Pope Leo XbyRaphael, 1519
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Posting the95 Theses