Martin Luther King Jr.

Luther was educated at the cathedral school at Eisenach and at the Univ. of Erfurt (1501-5). In 1505 he completed his masters examination and began the tuition of law. some(prenominal) months later, after what seems to have been a sudden religious experience, he entered a monastery of the Augustinian friars at Erfurt. There, devoutly attentive to the rigid retard of the order, he began an intensive study of Scripture and was ordained a priest in 1507. In 1508 he was sent to the Univ. of Wittenberg to study and to lecture on Aristotle. In 1510, Luther was sent to Rome on business for his order, and there he was shocked by the uncanny laxity apparent in high ecclesiastical places.

Upon his refund he completed the work for his theological doctorate and became a professor at Wittenberg. This period was the beginning of the intimacy among Luther and John von Staupitz, whose influence led Luther to say in 1531, I have accepted everything from Staupitz. For Luther these years were times of profound spiritual and physical torment. Obsessed with anxieties about his own salvation, he sought-after(a) relief in frequent confession and extreme asceticism. His try for peace of mind led him, under the guidance of Staupitz, to only study of the Scriptures.

In preparation for his university lectures in 1513, especially on the letter of Paul, Luther resolved his turmoil. In the Scriptures Luther found a loving idol who bestowed upon sinful humans the free gift of salvation, to be received through faith, against which all good works were as nothing. Luther commit himself with increasing vigor to the work of the church, and in 1515 he became district vicar.

He married (1525) a former nun, Katharina von Bora, and raised six children. His close friends and associates, Philip Melanchthon and...

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