HISTORY 3H03 Lecture Notes - Military Elite, Fide, Protestantism
15 Apr 2013
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Theological influences; augustine, st paul, romans 1:17. The indulgences controversy (1517: john tetzel, dominican preacher, pope leo x (1513-1521) (he was a medici) Catholicism: free will, original sin, 7 sacraments, faith, grace, and good works (doing good christian acts) Lutheranism: original sin, sola fide, gratia, scriptura (faith, grace, scriptures) Way to understand god is only in the scriptures. Grace was a much more active component, now up to god to save the individual. Human will is deformed and blind only god can save us and only through faith can we know that . No man is saved by his own merit good works are useless: priesthood of all believers . Only god can decide who will be saved (terrible truth) Writings; german bible, letter to the christian nobility. The diet of worms (1521): emperor charles v. The cultural context: dualism, apocalypticism, gender, roman law and the magistracy. Holy roman empire (1531-1555); peace of augsburg (1555)
