On October 31 was "born" the Protestant Reformation

Tuesday, 01 November 2011 13:46

On this date, all is not Halloween, remember that it was a day like today, October 31, when Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Wittenberg Palace church, ushering in the great movement of reform which were born Protestant churches and, later, Protestant churches. Luther received a revelation from the Lord through their love of reading in the Word of God, and could break with religious obscurantism of the Catholic Church forbade the reading and interpretation of the Bible. Luther was a Christian, what Einstein was to modern physics. A memorable day indeed. This is the note:

Evangelical churches celebrate Reformation Day

This October 31 Christians around the world commemorate the Reformation Day, established by the struggle of the German theologian and reformer Martin Luther. At 24 years old Luther was ordained as a priest thus continuing a long road that led him to discover in 1517 the preaching of indulgences by a Dominican monk, Tetzel.

According to traditional teaching, through the purchase of indulgences, was fought the souls detained in purgatory from the torments of it, because Luther introduced in a battle for the truth, causing the opening of a court of inquisition that culminated in Luther's excommunication from the Catholic Church.

This great religious precipitated the Protestant Reformation by posting on the doors of the Wittenberg Palace Church on October 31, 1517 his 95 theses denouncing indulgences and excesses of the Catholic Church.

On June 15, 1520, Leo X issued the bull of excommunication of Luther Exsurge entitled Domine. When Luther was rotting room went to the city and together with canon law, publicly burnt.

The legacy of Martin Luther

Luther was the chief architect of the Protestant Reformation, which had a much greater role than other reformers. Thanks to the press, his writings were read throughout Germany and exerted influence on many other reformers and thinkers, giving rise to various Protestant traditions in Europe and worldwide.

Both the Protestant Reformation and the consequent reaction Catholic Counter-Reformation, assumed an important intellectual development in Europe, for example, by the Jesuit scholastic thought in the case of Catholicism. For his translation of the Bible, Luther is also considered one of the founders of German literature.

In the Lutheran territories greatly increased the absolute power of princes. Catholics and Protestants held each other terrible religious wars. A century after Luther's protests, a revolt in Bohemia led to the Thirty Years War, a conflict between Catholics and Protestants that devastated much of Germany and killed about one third of the population.

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