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CHURCH HISTORY II

For history to make sense it has to be interpreted theologically. What

is God doing, not because of what people did, but in spite what peopledid.

Martin Luther

He prayed to St. Anne when he was caught in the storm. In those

days, Christians would ask the dead to pray for them, just one would

ask a living person. This is because the Catholic Church believed the

dead did not cease being part of the community of saints after they

die. But the official doctrine of the Catholic Church stated that it does

not worship the dead.

Luther first learned the doctrine of Justification by faith in theAugustianian monastery.

Martin Luther had a mentor Johann Von Staupitz.

Staupitz would tell Luther to just believe that Jesus died for his sins,

and that is enough, but Luther was so overwhelmed by his view of

Jesus as a vengeful judge.

Luther understood justification as God making one righteous. But hewas troubled by the fact that he could not live purely righteous. He

later discovered that God sees you as righteous, and then he makes

you righteous.

God sees me as righteous (status)(positional righteousness) --- God

makes me righteous (state) (progressive righteousness.

Diet of Worms

Luther refuses to recant.Scripture, conscience, reason are the three pillars of Protestantism.

From Martin Luthers famous quote.

Fredrick the Wise staged a kidnap to safety at Wartburg Castle foreight months. There he translated the New Testament into German.

Emperor gave an Edict outlawing Luther. The edict did not have

effect, because people were impressed that Luther could stand thePope and the Emperor and still survive.

Luther married a former nun Katherine von Bora and this subverted

the profession of priesthood at the time.

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The word protestant came up when the 14 Germans princes

protested the use of military force to flash out Luther.

In 1530, Luthers successor, Philip Melanchton, wrote Ausburgconfession. It has 28 articles of faith.

Reasons for the success of the Reformation

1. No single European who questioned the existence of God. Afertile spiritual environment.

2. High veneration of saints3. Dramatic rise of lay brotherhoods.4. Disillusion with the secularization of the church and the papacy5. Psychological anxiety and heavy financial burden due to

penance system.6. Renaissance- Christian humanism: going back to the sources.7. Invention of the Johann Gutenbergs printing pressThree pillars of Reformation

Supremacy of the scriptures

Priesthood of all believers

Justification by Faith

Magisterial ReformsAnabaptists advocated for the separation of church and state.

Heidelberg Catechism- for Calvinism

The Thirty-Nine ArticlesAnglicanism

One of the reasons why the church grew in China, even in the

midst of the Communist persecution, was because the

missionaries left a Chinese Bible.

ENGLISH REFORMATION

Anglicanism is the largest protestant denomination in the world. It

arose from the English Reformation