In
1513, Luther began his first lectures on the Psalms, lectures in which his
critique of the theological world around him began to take shape, and
later, 1515 - 1516, in lectures on Paul's Epistle to the Romans, this
critique became even more noticeable (Martin pp). It was during these
lectures that Luther at last found the assurance that had evaded him for so
many years, a discovery that changed his life and ultimately changed the
course of church history and the history of Europe (Martin pp). In Romans
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