Martin Luther was a influencal protestant reformer. He did many important things during his life. Luther strongly objected to the selling of indulgences, disputing the claim that freedom from God's punishment of sin could be purchased with money. Luther wrote the ninety-five theses to confront this selling and the indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel. Even at the demand of Pope Leo X, he would not recant his works. Luther objected to a saying attributed to Johann Tetzel that "As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory [also attested as 'into heaven'] springs. Luther's works would later be banned by secular authorities. Luther was called in front of "the diet of worms" (council) and ordered to recant his works, to which Luther replyed: "Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. May God help me. Amen."
This stand against this church officials was signficnt because noone before had dared to contradict the church, because Luther took a stand he iniated the Protestant Reformation. He was taken into safety at Wartburf Castle at Eisenach after this stand .While there he translated the New Testament from latin to german. before Luther''s translation, the bible had only been in latin and reserved for nobility. This was important as well because now everyone could read the bible.
Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora, one of 12 nuns he had helped escape from the Nimbschen Cistercian convent in April 1523, when he arranged for them to be smuggled out in herring barrels. This was important because he formally had been a monk against marriage, now he married.
I believe Luther was important because he paved the way for the Protestent Reformation. Through his stand, christianity was seperated from the catholic faith. In the movie "Luther" he was very welled protryed accurately. The acting was great and did well to represent martin luther's life.
Luther was a prolific hymn writer, authoring hymns such as Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (A Mighty Fortress is our God)based on Psalm 49. Luther connected high art and folk music, also all classes, clergy and laity, men, women and children. His device for this linking was the singing of German hymns in connection with worship, school, home, and the public arena. Luther's 1524 creedal hymn Wir glauben all an einen Gott (We All Believe in One True God) is a three-stanza confession of faith prefiguring Luther's 1529 three-part explanation of the Apostles' Creed in the small cathicism. Luther's hymn, adapted and expanded from an earlier German creedal hymn, gained widespread use in vernacular Lutheran liturgies as early as 1525. Sixteenth-century Lutheran hymnals also included Wir glauben all among the catechetical hymns, although 18th-century hymnals tended to label the hymn as Tritarian rather than catechetical, and 20th-century Lutherans rarely use the hymn because of the perceived difficulty of its tune.
Luther's 1538 hymnic version of the Lord's Prayer, Vater unser im Himmelreich, corresponds exactly to Luther's explanation of the prayer in the Small Catechism, with one stanza for each of the seven prayer petitions, plus opening and closing stanzas. The hymn functioned both as a liturgical setting of the Lord's Prayer and as a means of examining candidates on specific catechism questions. The extant manuscript shows multiple revisions, demonstrating Luther's concern to clarify and strengthen the text and to provide an appropriately prayerful tune. Other 16th- and 20th-century versifications of the Lord's Prayer have adopted Luther's tune, although modern texts are considerably shorter.
i got my information
from:
The movie "Luther"
and
www.HistoryGuide.com/martinluther.html.com
