NAME: ALLEN G.

CASTAÑO DATE: APRIL 23, 2024

COURSE: BSN 2 A SCORE:

WHAT IS THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF MARTIN LURTHER?

ANS: German theologian, professor, pastor, and church reformer. Luther began the Protestant
Reformation with the publication of his Ninety-Five Theses on October 31, 1517. In this
publication, he attacked the Church’s sale of indulgences. He advocated a theology that rested
on God’s gracious activity in Jesus Christ, rather than in human works. Nearly all Protestants
trace their history back to Luther in one way or another. Luther’s relationship to philosophy is
complex and should not be judged only by his famous statement that “reason is the devil’s
whore.”. Martin Luther was born to peasant stock on November 10, 1483 in Eisleben in the Holy
Roman Empire – in what is today eastern Germany. Soon after Luther's birth, his family moved
from Eisleben to Mansfeld. His father was a relatively successful miner and smelter and
Mansfeld was a larger mining town. Luther was the seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation,
and his theological beliefs form the basis of Lutheranism. He is regarded as one of the most
influential figures in Western and Christian history. His writings were responsible for
fractionalizing the Catholic Church and sparking the Protestant Reformation.
WHAT IS REFOMATION?
ANS: The act or process of changing a religious, political, or societal institution for the better is
called a reformation. When capitalized, the Reformation refers specifically to the Protestant
Reformation in Europe, which was a religious change instigated in 1517 by Protestants who
wished to reform the Catholic Church. The Reformation became the basis for the founding of
Protestantism. A major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe
that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic
Church.
WHAT IS PROTESTANTISM?
ANS: Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification by God through faith
alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all
believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
For example, Baptists are found within all three Protestant traditions, Pentecostals belong to
either the evangelical or historically black Protestant tradition and Lutherans belong to either the
evangelical or mainline tradition.
WHAT IS HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF PROTESTANTISM IN THIS GENERATION?
ANS: The Protestant Reformation, a religious movement that began in the sixteenth century,
brought an end to the ecclesiastical unity of medieval Christianity in western Europe and
profoundly reshaped the course of modern history.