HIST 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Protestant Wind, Leviticus 18, Book Of Leviticus
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The protestant reformation, backdrop to protestant establishment in english north america: the protestant reformation. Human salvation comes through 2 sets of activity- one is that humans are righteous, love for fellow human beings, go through other rites like baptism etc. ; divine salvation from god is the other. Luther believed that salvation was not the work of human merit but completely a work of god- his motto was sola fide (faith alone)- humans must merely trust in that. He believes he derives his new path from the new testament, particularly the book of romans. Human beings learn what they need to do to serve god from the scriptures alone. Announces in the theses that a public debate would be held in wittenberg, pope leo threatens to excommunicate ml- he refuses to recant. Labeled a heretic again with the edict of worms.
