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Lesson OneIntroduction to Luther’s Life and Work3 Activities
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Lesson TwoLuther’s Medieval Intellectual Context3 Activities
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Lesson ThreeReformation and Medieval Popular Religion2 Activities
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Lesson FourLuther’s "Evangelical Breakthrough"3 Activities
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Lesson FiveLuther and The Theology of the Cross3 Activities
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Lesson SixLuther and Two Kinds of Righteousness3 Activities
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Lesson SevenLuther and the First Commandment3 Activities
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Lesson EightLuther’s Anthropology and Doctrine of Sin3 Activities
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Lesson NineThe Bondage of the Will3 Activities
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Lesson TenLuther’s Doctrine of the Person of Christ3 Activities
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Lesson ElevenLuther’s Doctrine of Justification3 Activities
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Lesson TwelveLuther’s Doctrine of Repentance3 Activities
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Lesson ThirteenLuther’s Doctrine of Scripture – Part I3 Activities
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Lesson FourteenLuther’s Doctrine of Scripture – Part II3 Activities
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Lesson FifteenLuther’s Hermeneutics2 Activities
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Lesson SixteenLuther’s Doctrine of Baptism3 Activities
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Lesson SeventeenLuther’s Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper3 Activities
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Lesson EighteenLuther’s Doctrine of the Church3 Activities
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Lesson NineteenLuther’s Doctrine of the Christian Life3 Activities
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Lesson TwentyLuther’s Doctrine of Worship and Prayer3 Activities
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Lesson Twenty-OneLuther’s Doctrine of Culture3 Activities
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Lesson Twenty-TwoLuther’s Doctrine of Church and State3 Activities
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Lesson Twenty-ThreeLuther’s Doctrine of Eschatology3 Activities
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Lesson Twenty-FourLuther’s Catechisms3 Activities
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Course Wrap-UpCourse Completion1 Activity1 Assessment
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Discussion Questions
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Describe the man Martin Luther at the advent of the Reformation.
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Martin was an Augustinian monk in the strictest order. He had a Doctor of Bible degree. He gave biblical lectures, especially in the Psalms. He was part of the humanism movement, referring to ancient Greek, Latin and ancient Hebrew literature. This benefitted his students at the time. Also at this time he was lecturing at the University of Wittenberg. Between 1516 and 1518 he developed the series of disputations which focussed on Luther’s rejection of the sinner’s natural ability to keep God’s commands as in Romans – to do good in God’s sight – earning grace. He started to find much medieval theology had been taken out of biblical context and that his parishioners were saying they did not need to perform good works as he still prescribed for them, because of the indulgences they purchased to get out of purgatory. This led to what is called the Reformation.
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The Protestant Reformation began in Wittenberg, Germany, on October 31, 1517, when Martin Luther , a teacher and a monk, published a document he called Disputation on the Power of Indulgences, or Ninety-Five Thesis. It was a debate of a series of issues around the pastoral care of the people of God. This document of was a series of 95 ideas about Christianity that he invited people to debate with him. There are some important ideas about the Ninety-Five Thesis that are not to be denied. 1. The first thesis expresses a proposition that Luther would defend his entire life. That a life of a Christian is a life of penance, not going to the sacrament of penance, but in a sense of daily repentance, a daily dying to our sin. Martin Luther believed that the Bible is the central source of religious authority and that salvation is reached through faith and not deeds, shaped the core of Protestantism. Luther argued that the church had to be reformed. Martin Luther’s main goal was to show people how to reach toward God through personal faith. Martin Luther stood up to his superiors and demanded to recant his teachings and philosophies in which the case being that Luther replied, ” I will not recant”. Martin Luther believed in the Holy Scriptures that everyone can seek repentance, and that faith alone, not deeds would lead to salvation.
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01212022 Historically, It can be argued that Dr. Martin Luther was not only a conflicted individual in how he practiced and taught his faith as he understood it through his Augustinian Colleagues. but was when he promoted his enlightened beliefs-rather stubborn in how he stood up for them. I claim this in light of how He I believe stood up to his Superiors whom demanded he recant his teachings/philosophies with the exclamation of to paraphrase him ” These are the Holy Scriptures, and of them I will not recant.”
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How did the Reformation begin? Summarize the elements in Luther’s life which led to it. Summarize the elements in the culture of Western Europe which led to it.
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What role did the printing press play in Luther’s reform of the church?
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Role of the importance of the printing press, was used to print the Ninety-Five thesis, became famous in Western cultural history, because it was the first modern media event. The printing press was also important because in some ways the printing press made its debut as vehicle of arousing popular feeling and popular thought through the Ninety-Five thesis. The Ninety-Five thesis was printed and sold and translated into German. One man’s idea spread fast. More than fifty years after the invention of the printing press Martin Luther made a tremendous impact on Western history, by using the printing press it could be used to influence ideas. And those who could not read, heard from others content. This hot news item affected the hearts and souls of people lives. Bothe the Protestant and Catholic propagandists made use of the printing press as a means of influencing the public. Protestants used printing press to expand revolutionary theological material. Catholic Church produced large quantities of anti-Reformation texts. The role of the printing press was used as a valuable tool, it was the media of those days. Word got out fast and spread like wild fire.
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01212022 The advent of the printing press helped Luther to promote the reform of the church by a) Putting in place a mechanism for selling of his ‘theses’ to those whom would buy them, read them and help him to further his theological work of the times. b) It placed his theological education into the hands of the few people of the populace whom were able to read;and thus made them trained ambassadors of a sort in communicating with those whom weren’t literate enough themselves to comprehend his arguments.
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The invention of the printing press was fairly new to Luther’s time. He saw immediately its worth as a way of distributing information to as many people as possible. He could also verify what was being printed. Without the printing press it would have taken decades to disseminate information. ML used it to distribute postils, adult and children’s education materials. He found it an excellent way to get the message to the people regardless of the Catholic Church’s wishes.
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Why did conflict fill Luther’s life?
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01212022 It is thought that Conflict filled Luther”s life because he behaved and taught contrary to the Theological teachings of the time-particularly as associated with the practice of Roman Catholicism. He taught e.g. against Justification of faith through simply performance of ‘Good works.’ He taught instead that Salvation from ones Sins–however defined -was through the Grace of God principally that was achieved for particularly ALL whom professed Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior ,and believe that His death washes us free of our sins-although living a wholesome life isnt to be discounted as valuable.
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From a child Luther was raised with strict pious parents who wanted much for their son. He went to schools which taught him one way of thinking- Scholastisism. Yet, as he grew older he was more a humanist. He fought with the way he was taught. He had many conflicts with his father, who wanted him to take a certain course in life–that of a lawyer, so ML could work for his father. Luther chose the path of Augustinian monk. Luther had conflict within himself over whether he was saved or not. He was raised Catholic with all its guilt laden 15-16th century rules, sacraments, good works, etc. Luther did his utmost best at being a monk and at saving himself, all to no avail. Or so he thought.
Once Luther understood that faith alone was all he needed to be saved he had conflict with Catholic Church, the pope and any person who held those beliefs, which was most of the people he knew. His conflicted knowledge of the true Christian faith would lead him to a lifelong struggle with these different views.