Martin Luther

Martin Luther was the son of a copper miner in Saxony. He was studying law when, caught in a violent thunderstorm in 1505, he vowed to become a monk, and he entered an Augustinian monastery. He became a professor of the Bible at the University of Wittenberg. Troubled about how a sinner could be right with God, he came to believe from Paul's letters that people are made righteous by God's grace through faith, not by their own works. In 1517 he wrote the Ninety-Five Theses against the sale of indulgences. The printing press spread his writings across Germany. Refusing to take back his books at the Diet of Worms in 1521, he was declared an outlaw; his prince, Frederick the Wise, hid him in Wartburg Castle, where he translated the New Testament into German. He married a former nun, Katharina von Bora, wrote hymns such as A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, and wrote catechisms for families. His late writings against the Jews were harsh and are widely rejected today. He died in 1546.

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Faith: Former Augustinian monk who became the central figure of the Protestant Reformation. Source: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy