1. Church History 1000-1700 A.D. Part 3: Luther – The Early Years Mark Hagen June 20, 2004

2. 1500110013001400 Church History 1000-1700 A.D. Part 3: Luther – The Early Years Timeline 1000-1500 A.D. 1000 East-West Schism 1054 1095 1 st Crusade 1200 Constantinople Sacked 1204 1212 French Children’s Crusade

3. Church History 1000-1700 A.D. Part 3: Luther – The Early Years “The value of the period [14 th and 15 th centuries] lies in the demonstration it gives that reform of the papal church from within was impossible.” - Bruce Shelley Church History in Plain Language, p.233

4. Martin Luther’s parents, Hans and Margarete by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1527 Church History 1000-1700 A.D. Part 3: Luther – The Early Years

6. “I greatly longed to understand Paul’s Epistle to the Romans and nothing stood in the way but that one expression, “the justice of God,” because I took it to mean that justice whereby God is just and deals justly in punishing the unjust. My situation was that, although an impeccable monk, I stood before God as a sinner troubled in conscience, and I had no confidence that my merit would assuage [ease the anger] Him. I did not love a just and angry God, but rather hated and murmured against Him. Yet I clung to the dear Paul and had a great yearning to know what he meant....

7. Church History 1000-1700 A.D. Part 3: Luther – The Early Years... Night and day I pondered until I saw the connection between the justice of God and the statement that the ‘just shall live by his faith.’ Then I grasped that the justice of God is that righteousness by which through grace and sheer mercy God justifies us through faith. Thereupon I felt myself to be reborn and to have gone through open doors into paradise.” - Martin Luther Roland Bainton, Here I Stand, p.49

8. Church History 1000-1700 A.D. Part 3: Luther – The Early Years

9. Pope Leo X by Raphael, 1519

10. Posting the 95 Theses