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  2. Martin Luther - Wikipedia

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    Martin Luther was born on 10 November 1483 to Hans Luder (or Ludher, later Luther) [19] and his wife Margarethe (née Lindemann) in Eisleben, County of Mansfeld, in the Holy Roman Empire. Luther was baptized the next morning on the feast day of Martin of Tours .

  3. Protestant Reformers - Wikipedia

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    Protestant Reformers were theologians whose careers, works and actions brought about the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century.. In the context of the Reformation, Martin Luther was the first reformer, sharing his views publicly in 1517, followed by Andreas Karlstadt and Philip Melanchthon at Wittenberg, who promptly joined the new movement.

  4. Luther's canon - Wikipedia

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    Luther's canon is the biblical canon attributed to Martin Luther, which has influenced Protestants since the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. While the Lutheran Confessions specifically did not define a biblical canon, it is widely regarded as the canon of the Lutheran Church .

  5. Martin Luther and antisemitism - Wikipedia

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    Martin Luther (1483–1546) was a German professor of theology, priest, and seminal leader of the Reformation.His positions on Judaism continue to be controversial. These changed dramatically from his early career, where he showed concern for the plight of European Jews, to his later years, when embittered by his failure to convert them to Christianity, he became outspokenly antisemitic in his ...

  6. Proto-Protestantism - Wikipedia

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    Jacques Lefèvre d’Etaples wrote commentaries on the Bible which influenced Martin Luther. [76] Erasmus: Erasmus was born only 20 years before Luther in the Netherlands and produced the Latin and Greek New Testament that the Reformers used for their vernacular translations. He sought thorough-going moral and institutional reform, and ...

  7. 7 women who influenced Martin Luther King Jr. - AOL

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    That was true even in the life of Martin Luther King Jr., the charismatic leader whose name has become synonymous with the movement. ... Scholars say it was Hall's words that ultimately inspired ...

  8. Ninety-five Theses - Wikipedia

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    Woodcut of an indulgence-seller in a church from a 1521 pamphlet Johann Tetzel's coffer, now on display at St. Nicholaus church in Jüterbog, Germany. Martin Luther, professor of moral theology at the University of Wittenberg and town preacher, [3] wrote the Ninety-five Theses against the contemporary practice of the church with respect to indulgences.

  9. 10 Surprising Facts About Martin Luther King Jr. - AOL

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    D r. Martin Luther King Jr., a pivotal figure in the civil rights movement, dedicated his life to advocating for racial harmony and the realization of the American dream for all.. As the U.S ...