EPISODE · Oct 5, 2021 · 32 MIN
Martin Luther: Seeds of Reformation with Alec Ryrie
from The ChurchNext Podcast · host Alec Ryrie, Carrie Graves
If you’re interested in reading more about Martin Luther, look into Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther by Roland H. Bainton and Martin Luther: Confessor of the Faith by Robert Kolb. Online, the Project Wittenberg website has many resources by and about Martin Luther and other Lutherans, including an extensive Martin Luther page. Dr. Ryan Reeves, an Assistant of Historical Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, has a YouTube channel called Historical Theology for Everyone, which offers short lectures on specific aspects of Luther's life and work.If you are interested in learning more about Alec's work, visit his blog at http://alecryrie.blogspot.com. In addition, check out his books, Unbelievers, an Emotional History of Doubt and -- Protestants: the Faith that Made the Modern World, among others. Dr. Alec Ryrie is a professor in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Durham, author, blogger and church historian. His most recent book is Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt (2019). Alec’s current research is on the history of how Protestantism became a global religion in the seventeenth century, and how it reveals deeper currents in the history of Christianity and of the modern world.Check out our ChurchNext courses Martin Luther: Here I Stand with Alec, a follow-up to the work you are listening to today and, The Lutheran Tradition with Mark Tranvik. Collect for the Feast of Martin Luther from A Great Cloud of Witnesses:O God, our refuge and our strength: You raised up your servant Martin Luther to reform and renew your Church in the light of your word. Defend and purify the Church in our own day and grant that, through faith, we may boldly proclaim the riches of your grace, which you have made known in Jesus Christ our Savior, who with you and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
What this episode covers
In this episode we talk about Martin Luther's life and career and an overview of how Luther's early writings created a foundation for a movement that would eventually become the Protestant Reformation. Martin Luther's work ignited the beginning of Protestant Christianity. His writings became the basis for the Lutheran denomination. His protests against corruption helped to motivate a massive reformation within the Catholic church.
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