[Faith-talk] Fw: Fwd: How the Reformation started

[Sandra Streeter]

Zondervan AcademicForwarding from a friend—looks very interesting.



Sandra

One can never consent to creep, when one feels an impulse to soar.
(Helen Keller)


From: Nancy
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 7:52 AM
To: Dr. Claudia S. Berry ; Sandra Streeter ; DJ Hastings
Subject: Fwd: How the Reformation started

Great free teaching on Martin Luther.
Nancy

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  From: Zondervan Academic <zondervan at e.zondervan.com>
  Date: September 19, 2017 at 7:18:13 PM EDT
  To: nancham777 at gmail.com
  Subject: How the Reformation started
  Reply-To: zondervan at e.zondervan.com


                                You probably know at least one thing about Martin Luther: that he nailed the 95 theses to a church door and defied the Roman Catholic Church. The truth is, this is historically inaccurate.





                          How the Reformation Started


                          You probably know at least one thing about Martin Luther: that he nailed the 95 theses to a church door and defied the Roman Catholic Church.

                          This was Luther’s declaration of independence from Rome.

                          The truth is, that's not exactly how it happened.

                          Yes, October 31, 1517, would turn out to be the first hint that the Western world was about to be turned upside down. But Luther’s act on October 31, 1517 was not an act of rebellion.

                          It was, in fact, just the opposite. It was the act of a dutiful son of mother church.

                          Someone—no one knows who—took the Latin text of Luther’s 95 Theses, translated them into German, and sent them all over Germany. When the German people realized that Luther was standing up against abuses in the church, he became a hero throughout Germany.

                          The Reformation began.

                          But how did it start? To find out, we need to know what kind of man Luther was, and where he came from.


                                Learn more >





                          P.S. Take a look at Professor Frank James' talk on Luther's Reformation. You can watch it free between now and the 500th anniversary of the Reformation on October 31, 2017.




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