Martin Luther And The Reformation

Martin Luther was a primary force of change during the Reformation. Martin Luther was a very important shaper in the ideas and the movement of the reformation. He inspired massive changes to the societal and religious structure of the world, and as a result freed the world from the iron grip of the Catholic Church. Martin Luther was one of the most important reformers in the reformation. Martin Luther’s life before the Reformation helped to shape the ideas that he used to usher in change. His birth marked the day a famous revolutionary was born. Martin Luther’s parents, Margarethe Lindemann Luder and Hans Luder, who were later called the Luthers (Somervill 17), welcomed him into the world on November 10, 1483 at Eisbleben in Prussian Saxony
This reformation of the Church is extremely important, as it allowed people to view religion in an entirely new way (“Martin Luther”). Before Luther, the general public may not have known anything other than what the Church and the priests taught them, or they feared the retribution the Church would bring upon them if they dared speak against the mighty Catholic Church. Before change began taking place, Luther had intensely studied the Bible, and eventually reached a personal conclusion that a person could achieve salvation ‘through faith alone,’ or that actions do not determine a person’s place in Heaven or Hell, but a person’s own faith in God does (Zucker and Harris). This idea became the basis for Luther’s entire religious movement, and is the reason why people being able to read the Bible for themselves was so important to him. Luther’s ideas later influenced societies based off of his beliefs. His ideas eventually reached Switzerland and Holland where Calvin and Knox founded societies off of his principles (“Martin Luther”). While Luther started a religious movement, one event was extremely important in deciding his continuance as a force of change in the Reformation, the Diet of
What made the Diet of Worms so important is what came after Luther did not deny the writings that Rome had condemned. As news of him and what he had done reached others, a movement was sparked that would later become known as the “Protestant Reformation,” where a new branch of religion was sparked from the protest of what many believed were their right ideas (Brady). After the diet, the Elector of Saxony, known as Frederick the Wise, secretly kidnapped Luther as he was leaving Worms under the Imperial conduct, and took him to the safety of a castle, where Luther immediately got to work on translating the New Testament (Zucker and Harris). This pulled Luther out of the eye of the Emperor, and the emperor eventually turned his focus to other issues. This allowed Luther to continue his teachings and writings, something his predecessors hadn’t been able to do (Zucker and