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  • The 95 Theses

    10/31/2024 4:06:04 PM PDT · by Cletus.D.Yokel · 100 replies
    Luther.de ^ | 10/31/1517 | Martin Luther
    The 95 Theses Out of love for the truth and from desire to elucidate it, the Reverend Father Martin Luther, Master of Arts and Sacred Theology, and ordinary lecturer therein at Wittenberg, intends to defend the following statements and to dispute on them in that place. Therefore he asks that those who cannot be present and dispute with him orally shall do so in their absence by letter. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen. 1. When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, ``Repent'' (Mt 4:17), he willed the entire life of believers to be one of...
  • How the Renaissance Led to the Reformation

    08/13/2024 8:48:00 AM PDT · by OneVike · 23 replies
    The Reason For My Faith ^ | 10/31/08 | Chuck Ness
    This is the first time I have ever shared this in whole, I have however shared portions before. I offer this thesis as it was presented to my Church History professor in 2008, minus the bibliography or credits. This is somewhat long, but I have been told by others it flows well, so it doesn't seem as long. I'll let you decide if that is true. Mind you, I was not as polished at writing back then, so if you see any egregious errors in my punctuation or grammar you will know why. I pray everyone enjoys it, and please...
  • The Horrors of the Church and Its Holy Inquisition

    07/11/2024 7:22:20 AM PDT · by patriot torch · 137 replies
    bibliotecapleyades ^ | bibliotecapleyades
    The Inquisition was an ecclesiastical court and process of the Roman Catholic Church setup for the purpose towards the discovery and punishment of heresy which wielded immense power and brutality in medieval and early modern times. The Inquisitions function was principally assembled to repress all heretics of rights, depriving them of their estate and assets which became subject to the ownership of the Catholic treasury, with each relentlessly sought to destroy anyone who spoke, or even thought differently to the Catholic Church. This system for close to over six centuries became the legal framework throughout most of Europe that orchestrated...
  • ‘The Stripping of the Altars’, 30 years on {review of book by Eamon Duffy}

    05/29/2024 7:48:51 AM PDT · by Cronos · 12 replies
    Catholic Herald ^ | March 30, 2022 at 9:00 am | Eamon Duffy
    In the early 1980s, three unrelated events converged to turn my attention decisively to the late Middle Ages and the Reformation. I was invited to give a lecture on the Book of Common Prayer Burial Service. I decided to tackle this task by comparing the elaborate medieval Latin burial service with the austerely Protestant rite Cranmer had quarried from it: the realisation that, in the medieval service at the moment of committal of the corpse, the priest addressed the dead person directly, whereas in the Prayer Book rite the minister turned instead to the living mourners round the grave...
  • Monica Lewinsky signed as face of Reformation's vote campaign

    02/28/2024 12:05:50 PM PST · by twister881 · 26 replies
    BBC News ^ | Updated 28 February 2024 | Max Matza
    Monica Lewinsky, the anti-bullying activist who found herself at the centre of a 90s media storm after an affair with President Bill Clinton, has been signed by a major fashion brand. . Ms Lewinsky was chosen by women's fashion house Reformation to lead the company's latest voting campaign. . The "You've Got the Power" work wear campaign was launched on Monday in partnership with Vote.org.
  • 1525: Jäcklein Rohrbach, for the Weinsberg Blood Easter

    05/21/2023 7:51:51 PM PDT · by CheshireTheCat · 3 replies
    ExecutedToday.com ^ | May 21, 2018 | Headsman
    On the 21st or perhaps the 20th of May in 1525, the peasant rebel Jakob Rohrbach — more commonly known as Jäcklein (“Little Jack”) Rohrbach — was chained to a stake and burned alive as the nobility celebrated its victory in the German Peasants’ War. Rohrbach was by history’s acclamation the most bloody-minded of the peasant revolutionaries — for Jakob perhaps had learned the lesson of the Jacquerie that rebels against the lords must vanquish or perish. (Jakob Rohrbach was literate.) When the peasantry rose to shake Germany, Rohrbach was elected a leader in the environs of Weinsberg, in Baden-Wuerttemberg....
  • How childhood influences shaped a great preacher [Spurgeon, more Godly even before conversion than most Christians today]

    02/15/2023 8:35:54 AM PST · by daniel1212 · 2 replies
    phillipjohnson.blogspot.com ^ | 23 August 2005 | phillip johnson
    is well known that Charles Spurgeon came to Christ when he ducked into a small church to escape a snowstorm and heard the gospel proclaimed. Some wrongly think Spurgeon was thus suddenly converted to Christ out of a life of sheer paganism. Spurgeon himself used to talk about how he had suffered for a long time under the weight of sin before he finally found Christ. Because of the way he described himself as a great sinner utterly in debt to divine grace, many who heard him preach came away with the impression that he was a man who had...
  • HAPPY REFORMATION DAY

    10/31/2022 5:45:07 AM PDT · by tanstaafl.72555 · 91 replies
    monergism ^ | 1650 | Martin Luther
    I felt that I was a sinner before God with an extremely disturbed conscience. I could not believe that he was placated by my satisfaction. I did not love, yes, I hated the righteous God who punishes sinners, and secretly, if not blasphemously, certainly murmuring greatly, I was angry with God, and said, "As if, indeed, it is not enough, that miserable sinners, eternally lost through original sin, are crushed by every kind of calamity by the law of the decalogue, without having God add pain to pain by the gospel and also by the gospel threatening us with his...
  • "A Reformation in Liturgy and Hymnody" (Sermon for Reformation Day, on John 8:31-36)

    10/29/2022 9:16:22 PM PDT · by Charles Henrickson · 2 replies
    stmatthewbt.org ^ | October 30, 2022 | The Rev. Charles Henrickson
    “A Reformation in Liturgy and Hymnody” (John 8:31-36) Jesus said, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” Friends, this is really what the Reformation was all about: that people would abide in the living, life-giving word of Christ; that they would know the truth of the gospel, which had been obscured by the errors that had crept into the church; and that this truth would set people free from the slavery they had been laboring under. Luther himself had labored under that slavery,...
  • German Catholics plan Reformation 2.0

    08/31/2022 2:29:16 PM PDT · by Gillibrand1 · 2 replies
    Catholic Conclave ^ | 30/8/2022 | CG
    Demands from Rottenburg I wonder what the Pope will say about this? Rottenburg - The long-prepared Council Day of the protest, "Reforms now - Council from below" will take place on Saturday, 24 September. More than 400 participants from parishes of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, church associations, religious, members of the Diocesan Council and others are expected. In the meantime, numerous delegates have registered for the Council Day. The initiators are the initiative pro concilio and the AGR, the solidarity group of priests and deacons in the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart. Supporters include the Federation of German Catholic Youth, the Catholic...
  • Can a Conservative Reformation Of Christianity Save The West ? (A personal post.)

    02/15/2022 9:11:11 PM PST · by Ozguy1945 · 13 replies
    E Pluribus Unum worked in the past but now multiculturalism has turned it around on itself, so that many voices out of one (Plures Ex Uno) are a Babel of sins destroying The West. A conservative reformation is the path I see to save us. Harnessing the inherently good faiths values of more than one culture to oppose stupidity and reassert true human life in God, family and community.
  • "Eleutherios: Free Indeed!" (Sermon for Reformation Day, on John 8:31-36)

    10/30/2021 7:05:58 PM PDT · by Charles Henrickson · 2 replies
    stmatthewbt.org ^ | October 31, 2021 | The Rev. Charles Henrickson
    “Eleutherios: Free Indeed!” (John 8:31-36) Today, October 31, along with millions of other Christians around the world, we are celebrating Reformation Day. Why? What’s so special about this day? Well, 504 years ago today, on October 31, 1517, Dr. Martin Luther posted his Ninety-five Theses against the sale of indulgences on the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany. And what Luther did that day started the movement known as the Reformation, which corrected many bad practices that crept into the church. Ever since, we observe the last Sunday in October as Reformation Day, and we thank God for using...
  • Henry VIII's SEVENTH Wife?! - The Story Of Katherine Willoughby

    09/29/2021 2:31:27 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 59 replies
    YouTube ^ | April 1, 2021 | TheUntoldPast
    One of the most famous Kings in the world has to be Henry VIII of England. He is most known today for the fact he had 6 wives, and the fact he ordered the execution of 2 of these, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard. Henry VIII's love life certainly was turbulent, and it caused chaos across the country. After being refused a divorce for his first wife Catherine of Aragon, he split from Rome becoming the Supreme Head of the Church of England. This began the English Reformation, which changed the face of religion forever.We know much about Henry's wives,...
  • How The Renaissance Led to The Reformation

    01/13/2021 4:12:02 PM PST · by OneVike · 27 replies
    The Reason For My Faith ^ | 1/13/21 | Chuck Ness
    Part I An Introduction Overview of the Renaissance Never in history has one man’s thesis so rattled the powers that be, than did Martin Luther’s ninety-five grievances he nailed to the Church door at Wittenberg. It was an act of defiance that would eventually topple a church state organization that held sway over kings and paupers alike for a thousand years. Every history class that covers the reformation will tell you that it was Johann Tetzel’sselling of indulgences that pushed Luther into action that day, Tetzel’s action was only the final straw, not the cause of the revolution. At the...
  • Why Luther?

    10/31/2020 5:28:58 AM PDT · by Gamecock · 149 replies
    Ligonier ^ | 10/30/2020 | Gene Edward Veith
    istory is the account of vast social movements and cultural changes. To be sure, individuals play their part. But they are usually understood to be products of their times. The Reformation, though, whose five-hundredth anniversary we observe this year and whose impact on not only the church but the world has been monumental, was largely precipitated by one man: Martin Luther. Yes, vast social movements and cultural changes were at work in sixteenth-century Europe. But Luther caused many of them, such as the educational explosion that would lead to universal literacy, the rise of the middle class, and eventually democratic...
  • "Inculcating the Reformation through Catechesis" (Sermon for Reformation Day, on Romans 3:19-28; John 8:31-36)

    10/24/2020 8:06:22 PM PDT · by Charles Henrickson · 6 replies
    stmatthewbt.org ^ | October 25, 2020 | The Rev. Charles Henrickson
    “Inculcating the Reformation through Catechesis” (Romans 3:19-28; John 8:31-36) First, let me tell you my title for this message. It’s “Inculcating the Reformation through Catechesis.” Now the next thing I want to tell you is this: Don’t let that title scare you off! Don’t worry, I’ll explain each of those terms: “Inculcating the Reformation through Catechesis.” So here we go. The first one I’ll explain is “the Reformation.” What is the Reformation? This term refers to the much-needed reforming of the church--straightening it out where it had gone wrong--the reforming movement undertaken by Martin Luther and his associates in the...
  • Luther and Africa

    09/28/2020 1:31:24 PM PDT · by Gamecock · 11 replies
    Patheos.Com ^ | 9/3/2020 | GENE VEITH
    Wheaton theology professor Jennifer Powell McNutt, in her article An Unsung Inspiration for the Protestant Reformation: the Ethiopian Church, recounts how the Reformation–far from being an exercise in individualism–saw itself in the context of the historical church and global Christianity.  The Reformers looked to the Orthodox churches of the East and of Africa as providing a precedent for many of their reforms. When Rome insisted that there can be no church without a Pope, the Reformers pointed to the Orthodox churches, which have no Pope and whose practices pre-date those of Medieval Catholicism.  Those churches do not emphasize Purgatory and do not...
  • 1600: The Pappenheimer Family

    07/29/2020 3:01:47 PM PDT · by CheshireTheCat · 8 replies
    ExecutedToday.com ^ | July 29, 2009 | Headsman
    On this date in 1600, Bavarians thronged to a half-mile-long procession in Munich for the horrific execution of the Pappenheimer family. They were marginal, itinerant types: the father, Paulus Pappenheimer, cleaned privies (“Pappenheimer” would remain as Nuremberg slang for a garbageman into the 20th century, according to Robert Butts); the mother, Anna, was the daughter of a gravedigger. They wandered, begged, did odd jobs. They were Lutherans in a Catholic duchy. So they were vulnerable to their extreme turn of bad luck. Fresh to the throne of Bavaria, young Catholic zealot Duke Maximilian I wanted a crackdown on the infernal...
  • 1540: Thomas Cromwell

    07/28/2020 5:08:06 PM PDT · by CheshireTheCat · 32 replies
    ExecutedToday.com ^ | July 28, 2009 | Headsman
    ...It was on this date in 1540 that the Machiavellian minister of Henry VIII fell by the instrument he had wielded so ably against so many others. While Henry strove to get his end away, Thomas Cromwell made the Reformation, setting his energetic hand to the needfully violent reordering of England. In almost a decade as the king’s chief minister, he had dissolved so many monasteries, annulled so many noble prerogatives, backstabbed so many courtiers, and sent so many of every class to the scaffold that most at court had some reason to hate him. (Cranmer was the only one...
  • Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History

    01/01/2020 1:05:44 PM PST · by CondoleezzaProtege · 65 replies
    Dr. Rodney Stark has written nearly 40 books on a wide range of topics, including a number of recent books on the history of Christianity, monotheism, Christianity in China, and the roots of modernity...His most recent book is Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History (Templeton Press, 2016), which addresses ten prevalent myths about Church history... CWR: You begin the book by first noting your upbringing as an American Protestant and then discussing “distinguished bigots”. What is a “distinguished bigot”? ... Dr. Rodney Stark: By distinguished bigots I mean prominent scholars and intellectuals who clearly are antagonistic to the...