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The Reformation! The Faith of the Common People
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On 31 October 1517, an Augustinian monk carried 95 theses through the streets of Wittenberg — whether to nail them to the castle church door, post them by letter, or send them to the printers remains disputed. Within two months they had spread across the Empire and beyond and the world was never the same again... In this first episode of the new season we look at the world Martin Luther grew up in, what common people like him experienced in life - mostly godawful things - and how that shaped their worldview and religious leanings. We will talk ab...
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It is the last day of October 1517. A gaunt figure, an Augustan monk, identifiable by his almost entirely black habit, emaciated from decades of ascetic exercises, marched along the one paved road of the town of Wittenberg, population 2000.
His body might still be broken, but his mind was on the mend. existential terror of a stern, wrathful God who condemned the unrighteous sinner to eternal agony had receded. He might not have fully developed his views on how one can find a way into God's grace, but his doubts had been mounting over the way the established church
was guiding its flock towards salvation. As he walked, he carried sheets of paper about the size of a modern A3 containing 95 theses in tight rows summarizing his emerging views of what it meant to be a Christian. Being an academic, he was keen to test his ideas with his peers. Hence this document, composed in Latin, the Universal Language of Learning,
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