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Nov 2020
November 4, 1520: Am I Alone Wise?
9m 15s
Nov 2020
November 10, 1520: The Lost Boy
9m 46s
Nov 2020
November 17, 1520: The Re-Sacrifice of Christ
9m 18s
Mar 2024
435. Luther: The Battle Against Satan (Part 3)
59 m
Jun 2011
The Council of Trent, the Reformation, and the Mass - Part Three
57m 2s
Apr 2024
436. Luther: Showdown with the Emperor (Part 4)
58m 53s
Jan 2022
12 Days: Martin Luther and J.R.R. Tolkien
25m 15s
Mar 2024
434. Luther: The Revolution Begins (Part 2)
48m 48s
Apr 2024
437. Luther: A World Torn Apart (Part 5)
1h 8m
Is the whole church in error, except for Martin Luther? Standing alone on the authority of Scripture, Luther asks Christian dukes and princes to take their stand with him against the pope. Today, go back to November 4, 1520, to hear how Emperor Charles V responds to Luther's appe ... Show More
On his 37th birthday, Martin Luther's thoughts turn to his troubled past. For most of his life, he was driven by fear, striving to earn God's favor and escape the torments of hell. But today, Luther has true peace with God through faith alone in Christ alone - the very peace that ... Show More
In teaching that Christ is re-sacrificed in holy communion and that receiving the Mass is a good work, the Roman Catholic Church is keeping souls captive to a false gospel. On this day 500 years ago, Martin Luther's criticism of this doctrine is being printed far and wide. Will h ... Show More
Three years on from Martin Luther’s publication of the Ninety-Five Theses - a shocking attack on the corruption of the Catholic Church and the selling of indulgences - his radical new ideas and brilliant use of the printing press had unleashed chaos in Christendom. Still in Witte ... Show More
“The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles.”
- Martin LutherIn the year 1517, a young Augustinian monk by the name of Martin Luther nailed his 95 Th ... Show More
"I cannot and will not recant anything for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe.…Here I stand, I can do no other”
The Diet of Worms in April 1521 was one of history’s most dramatic confrontations, a clash of the old world and the new. It saw the celebrity professor ... Show More
Luther's excommunication from the Catholic church and the birth of the author of Lord of the Rings happened on this day.
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Martin Luther is one of the few people to have genuinely changed the world, igniting a religious revolution that tore Christendom in two, and undermined European tradition in ways that still reverberate today. But along with Luther’s uniquely tortured psyche, three events contrib ... Show More
“I think there is not a devil left in hell, they have all gone into the peasants… smite, stab and slay all”.
Following on from Martin Luther’s dramatic abduction by his powerful protector, Frederick III, he had been secretly kept safe at Wartburg. There, he abandoned his priestl ... Show More
