Rafu warner biography of martin luther the reformer

Today is Reformation Day. A little over five hundred years ago, a former monk turned professor named Martin Luther nailed a list of ninety-five points of contention with the Catholic Church on the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany. This document that Luther created, known today as the Ninety-Five Theses, was not meant to flip Christianity on its head, but instead, it was simply designed to be an invitation to academic debate.

Debates quickly turned into trials, with Luther being accused of heresy.

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Over time, more and more people joined Luther in rejecting the authority of the current Catholic Church and formed their own churches. The life of this German professor was the spark that lit the flame that became the Protestant Reformation. If you are a Christian and do not go to a Catholic or Orthodox church, Reformation Day should matter to you.

It is only because of the Reformation that the Church of England was formed, and therefore that Puritans who disagreed with the Church of England fled to the Americas in order to form their own communities. Standing in this long line of reform, Warner University owes its existence to the Reformation. The Church of God based out of Anderson, IN—the movement which Warner aligns itself with—comes from the Wesleyan tradition, which itself was another product of the Protestant Reformation.

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Reformation Day should matter to you! The common misconception about the Reformation was that it was a rejection of all things that came before, in particular the Catholic Church. However, one will notice that the Lutheran church, founded by the same man who wrote the Ninety-Five Theses, is one of the most Catholic-looking Protestant denominations there is.

Though Martin Luther had plenty of problems with 16th century Catholicism at least ninety-five problems , there was much more that he wanted to preserve. A reformation is not a revolution; it does not eliminate the prior things, it revitalizes them.