Selderhuis Martin Luther

A Spiritual Biography
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4335-5697-5
Verlag: Crossway
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Famous for setting in motion the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther is often lifted high as a hero or condemned as a rebel. But underneath it all, he was a man of flesh and blood, with a deep longing to live for God. This biography by respected Reformation scholar Herman Selderhuis captures Luther in his original context and follows him on his spiritual journey, from childhood through the Reformation to his influential later years. Combining Luther's own words with engaging narrative designed to draw the reader into Luther's world, this spiritual biography brings to life the complex and dynamic personality that forever changed the history of the church.

Herman Selderhuis is professor of church history at the Theological University Apeldoorn in the Netherlands and director of Refo500, the international platform focused on raising awareness for projects related to the legacy of the Reformation. He also serves as the director of the Reformation Research Consortium, president of the International Calvin Congress, and curator of research at the John à Lasco Library in Emden, Germany. He is the author or editor of several books, including John Calvin: A Pilgrim's Life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Selderhuis, Herman

Leseproben

Timeline of Luther’s Life

1483	November 10: Born in Eisleben, Saxony

November 11 (The Feast of St. Martin): Baptized in the St. Peter and Paul Church of Eisleben

1484	Moves with family to Mansfeld

1490	Starts at the Latin school of Mansfeld

1497	Sent by his parents to a school in Magdeburg

1498	Allowed to move to Eisenach, where he attends the priests’ school associated with St. Georgenkirche

1501	Begins his legal study in Erfurt

1505	Early 1505: Completes his master’s degree and begins his actual study of law in Erfurt

July 2: Caught in a terrible thunderstorm and promises to become a monk

July 17: Enters the Augustinian monastery in Erfurt

1507	Consecrated as priest; reads his first mass

1508	Starts his theological studies at the University of Wittenberg

1509	Obtains two doctorates in theology and starts teaching but is recalled to the monastery in Erfurt soon after

1510–1511

Journeys to Rome because of a conflict within the Augustinian order and returns to continue studying at the University of Wittenberg

1512	Obtains a doctorate in theology and becomes professor of (biblical) theology

1513–1515

Starts teaching, beginning with his Lectures on the Psalms

1515–1516

Delivers his Lectures on Paul’s Epistle to the Romans

1516–1517

Delivers his Lectures on Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians

1517	October 31: Posts his “Ninety-Five Theses”

1517–1518

Delivers his Lectures on the Epistle to the Hebrews

1518	Early 1518: Publishes Sermon on Indulgence and Grace

April: Attends Heidelberg Disputation

October 12–14: Appears before Cajetan at Augsburg

1519	Continues his Lectures on the Psalms; attends conference in Leipzig with Eck and Carlstadt

1520	August 12: Publishes To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation

October 6: Publishes On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church

Mid-November: Publishes On the Freedom of a Christian

December 10: Burns the papal bull threatening excommunication

1521	January 3: Excommunicated

April 17–18: Attends hearing at the imperial Diet of Worms after a long journey through Germany but does not retract his books

May 4: Kidnapped and taken to the Wartburg, where he starts translating Erasmus’s edition of the Greek New Testament into German

May 8: Banished from the empire and declared an outlaw

Summer: Hears about the escalating situation in Wittenberg

1522	March 1: Returns to Wittenberg and starts to set matters straight

March 9: Begins his “Invocavit Sermons”

1523	April 4: Helps twelve nuns escape from the monastery in Nimbschen

1525	June 13: Marries Katharina von Bora

1526	June 7: First son is born

1529	Early 1529: Publishes Large and Small Catechisms

Spring: Lutheran members of the imperial Diet of Speyer protest its confirmation of the Edict of Worms, giving birth to the term Protestant

September 30: Arrives for the Colloquy of Marburg

1530	April–October: Stays in the Coburg during the Diet of Augsburg

1534	September: Completes translation of Old and New Testament and Apocrypha

1535	Begins his Lectures on Genesis

Appointed dean of the theological faculty at the University of Wittenberg

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