Martin Luther was a genius in his time, starting out as a monk, and then later on becoming a teacher, then to some viewed as a leader. Most people in today's world don't even know who Martin Luther is and when they here his name they think of Martin Luther knights man was responsible for m...

In the sixteenth century the Christian religion began to change. The conflicting idea of salvation was the key ingredient in the separation of the Roman Catholic Church in Rome. Martin Luther and his followers began to believe in a different form of salvation. During this time, several other gro...

Martin Luther was born in 1483 in Eisleben, Germany. He was the son of a successful miner. His father wanted young Martin to become a lawyer, but God had another plan. One day Martin was walking outside during a violent storm. Luther hit the ground after being struck by lightning. He cried out to...

Martin Luther The Great Reformer by J. A. Morrison Martin Luther The Great Reformer is a story told by others who knew this great man named Martin Luther. Some of these people followed him while others wanted to persecute him because he dared to challenge the church and its practices. Thi...

Martin Luther and John Calvin were both very important men to the Reformation in Europe during the Renaissance and beyond. Although both Martin Luther and John Calvin were against the ideas of the Catholic Church, they had different views on social order and political authority in most cases. Marti...

The Life of Martin Luther Martin Luther lived in a period that had a wide spread desire for reformation of the Christan Churhc and played the role in the development of Protestantism. Luther was born at Eislebenin Saxony. Since his father was a miner, it was a great distress on him to send Mar...

Martin Luther was a revolutionary thinker born during the latter part of the fifteenth century in Catholic Germany. During this time the papacy in Rome was growing in stature and in corruption. Pope Leo X was working on the St. Peter's Basilica and was being creative in its financing. In o...

Martin Luther's development of his theology, Lutheranism, took many years of Biblical studies, monastic living and inner soul searching. Luther had been designated by his father to be a lawyer. He pursued this wish by attending the University of Erfurt, a university that was considered t...

Martin Luther refused to admit guilt for what he had repeatedly published over the prior four years. Martin Luther was a German monk and was directly challenging the authority and teaching of Western Christendom and the man believed by Catholics to be the human representative of God on Earth, the P...

Martin Luther and John Calvin were both very important leaders of the Protestant Reformation. Although they were both against the Roman Catholic Church, they brought about very different ideas in religion. Martin Luther founded the group that are today known as Lutherans. He was ordaine...

The Reformation was an era of political, social, and religious unrest and many changes were made during this period. Peoples' eyes were opened to a lot of the practices and teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, which before no one seemed to have thought about in a negative manner. The readi...

In today's world, religious issues are not centrally associated with everyday life. This phenomenon can be attributed partly to the secularization of government, and the infiltration of the general populace or the common people into those very mechanisms that control their daily lives. This c...

Martin Luther was a monk in the Holy Roman Empire. Luther had paved the way to question the church which eventually led to the Protestant Reformation. His views on Christianity appealed to many people, but they were a threat to the Roman Catholic Church, thus causing much commotion throughout the ...

During the second half of the sixteenth century, a series of religious reformations broke out in Central Europe. Many people began to have different views on the Holy Roman Catholic Church, especially on the subjects of political authority and social order. Two important leaders of this time rose to...

Defending Martin Luther I. The Catholic Church and its problems In the beginning of the 16th century Western Europe only had one religion, Catholicism. The Catholic Church was very powerful and rich. The church made practices to impose reforms and the lax practices had grown up in the church. Ch...

Martin Luther lived from 1483-1546. Luther was born on November 10, 1483 in Eisleben in the province of Saxony. His protestant view of Christianity started what was called the Protestant Reformation in Germany. Luther's intentions were to reform the medieval Roman Catholic Church. But firm resista...

Though I do not care to credit just one individual for such an event as the Reformation, Luther was indeed, "in the right place at the right time" in the history of the Christian Church. God was able, at this time, to use such a man as he to perform an amazing altering of main stream Chri...

Martin Luther The Great Reformer is a story told by others who knew this great man named Martin Luther. Some of these people followed him while others wanted to persecute him because he dared to challenge the church and its practices. This book is an account of Martin Luther's life and how he came t...

The Protestant Reformation started in the 1500's when the Church started giving indulgences, or pardons for their sins, when someone gave money. The Catholic Church had always taught that when people die they cannot enter heaven before suffering some form of punishment for their sins in purgatory (...

Document-Based Question (DBQ): Defend or refute the following statement: The Protestant Reformation was a uni¬fied movement of dissent against the Catholic church. Historical Background: The Protestant Reformation officially began with Martin Luther's posting his "Ninety-five Theses" on the do...

Unintended Effect of History In the corse of the world's history, there have been defining moments that have shaped history. These events had a intended effect that were meant for the people of its time. The most defining events have lasted and have had unintended effects, positive and neg...

The reformation was a period when people went against the Catholic Church. Some differences between the reformation and the Catholic Church included the beliefs in religious icons, sales of indulgences so that people could get from purgatory to heaven, and how people should interpret the Bible. Whil...

The Reformation was a religious movement of the 1500's that led to Protestantism. This movement had an impact on social, political, economic and religious life. Before the Reformation, Europe had been held together by the Catholic Church and the claim of the Holy Roman Empire. During the Reform...

The Catholic Reformation and the Protestant Reformation, though seemingly different in theory, are in actuality similar. Both Reformations were led by influential leaders such as Martin Luther for the Protestant angle and Ignatius Loyola and Pope Paul III from the Catholic prospective. Moreover bo...

The Protestant Reformation "The righteous shall live by faith" (Romans 1:17) "I understood that the righteousness of God enables the just to live, that is, by faith. A merciful God justifies us by faith..." Martin Luther stated this in his writings some twenty-five ye...