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Church History 1000-1700 A.D. Part 3: Luther – The Early Years Mark Hagen June 20, 2004. Timeline 1000-1500 A.D. Constantinople Sacked 1204. East-West Schism 1054. 1000. 1100. 1200. 1300. 1400. 1500. 1212 French Children’s Crusade. 1095 1 st Crusade.
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Church History 1000-1700 A.D.Part 3: Luther – The Early YearsMark HagenJune 20, 2004
Timeline1000-1500 A.D. Constantinople Sacked1204 East-West Schism1054 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 1212FrenchChildren’s Crusade 10951st Crusade Church History 1000-1700 A.D.Part 3: Luther – The Early Years
“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 Church History 1000-1700 A.D.Part 3: Luther – The Early Years
Martin Luther’s parents, Hans and Margareteby Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1527 Church History 1000-1700 A.D.Part 3: Luther – The Early Years
Church History 1000-1700 A.D.Part 3: Luther – The Early Years
“I greatly longed to understand Paul’s 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. . . . Church History 1000-1700 A.D.Part 3: Luther – The Early Years
. . . 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 Church History 1000-1700 A.D.Part 3: Luther – The Early Years
Church History 1000-1700 A.D.Part 3: Luther – The Early Years