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Church back in the Middle Ages, which is around the 1500’s. Martin Luther was born into a copper mining family in 1483 in Saxony, Germany. Growing up people knew him as a bright child. In 1505 he received a Master of Arts Degree from the University of Erfurt. However, his father wanted him to become a lawyer so he sent Martin to study. Not many people were lawyers, but being a lawyer ment that you are a smart person because you would have learned how to read and write. During the same year…

Beginning in the early 16th century, a rise against the Catholic Church ensued as many influential Christian leaders began to teach against Catholic beliefs. In Germany specifically, a Reformation began in rebellion against the corruption and abuse of the Papacy. The Reformation opposed the catholic practices of collecting debts and the importance that they placed on Saints and icons. Martin Luther, the pivotal leader for the Reformation in Germany, expressed a need for rehabilitation within the…

became interested in the monastic life in 1496, at age thirteen, when he attended a school run by the Brethren of the Common Life, a Roman Catholic religious community, whose teachings focused on piety. Postliminary, he then attended the University of Erfurt where he studied a very basic curriculum and then received a Master’s degree in 1505. In July of 1505 Martin found himself cemented in a brutal thunderstorm where he was almost struck by lightning which he interpreted this manifestation as a…

Eisleben, Saxony, he soon moved to Mansfeld and began his education (Hillerbrand). He later attended a school in Magdeburg, whose emphasis on personal piety, “exerted a lasting influence on him,” (Hillerbrand). While studying at the University of Erfurt, Luther received a Master of Arts Degree in…

go to north of Magdeburg, where he continued studying in school. During the year 1498 Martin Luther returned to the town in Eisleben, Germany where he studied grammar, rhetoric and logic. Three years later, Martin Luther went to the University of Erfurt, where he got his master degree in art. On July 2, 1505 Martin Luther got caught in a roaring thunder storm where he feared his life, so he yelled “Save me, St. Anne, and I’ll become a monk!”. Suddenly the storm disappeared and he was saved.…

During a period in time known as the Middle Ages the Catholic Church was the subject to ample criticism and displeasure especially among low income families. The Great Schism or separation of the Roman Catholic Chruch into east and west, brought about feelings of distrust to a climatic level. Citizens all across Europe were began to lose their faith in the church's leadership especially with the Pope. A man Martin Luther who had spent his life dedicated to the monastery lifestyle ignited a…

shows Martin Luther’s humble beings and a relationship between father and son. Hans and Margarette Luder, his parents, were of peasant descendants. However, Hans had some success as a miner. In 1484, the family moved to nearby Mansfeld. University of Erfurt, in 1501, Martin…

Fifteenth-century Europe was a period of massive religious disputes between churches. As a result, it was later referred to as the Protestant Reformation, which unknowingly at the time, would have lasting effects on the history of Christianity (Mullet, “Luther” 1). During the Reformation, a theologian, Martin Luther considered himself a “liberator” of the people, “freeing Christians from a burdensome Catholic Religious system” (Mullet, “Martin Luther” 1). Luther was a highly educated monk, who…

His parents were poor peasants who made a living by mining. His father knew that mining was a hard life and insisted he become a lawyer. He attended the University of Erfurt where he got his Master of Arts degree. It looked like Luther was on the perfect path to become a lawyer. He was caught in a thunderstorm that was very bad and he was scared for his life. He didn’t know what else to do but pray to St. Anne and promise…

Martin Luther was born 1483 in Saxony, during the Middle Ages, a period when the general population was mostly illiterate. Only those who were wealthy enough to have tutors or those who were clergy where able to read Latin and Greek. Luther was a professor as well as a monk and priest. Because of his knowledge of the scriptures, he recognized the way the church misled the people. Typical of the Middle Ages, the church often used their knowledge to misrepresent scripture. They collected money for…