This essay is concerned with Martin Luther (1483-1546), and his concept of Christianity. ... Concerning Luther and the Reformation, Paul Tillich states: "The turning point of the Reformation and of church history in general is the experience of an Augustinian monk in his monastic cell--Martin Luther. Martin Luther did not merely teach different doctrines; others had done that also, such as Wyclif. ... The only man who really made a breakthrough, and whose breakthrough has transformed the surface of the earth, was Martin Luther. . . . ... This is the type of change the Reformation and Martin Lu...

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In it Martin Luther pointed out that the church had fallen so far away from truth that it had spiritually become Bablylon: Apostate! (PAUSE) What would Luther have said if he had been born 500 years later and he had seen our Evangelical Church today? ... Roman Catholicism in Luther's day made it clear that there is one way to heaven and it's through the Roman Church. ...

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Even Martin Luther attacked the book of James, saying it was not faithful to the gospel of Christ, that it had nothing of the nature of the gospel about it. Martin Luther actually placed the book of James at the end of his German Translation of the New Testament. ... Martin Luther detested these books so much that he did not list them in the table of contents. ...

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The Second Vatican Council, an ecumenical meeting, was the first in almost a century. With it came the introduction and implementation of changes that rocked every aspect of Church life. Lasting from 1962 to 1965 under the leadership of two of the most influential Popes to ever take up an office in the Vatican, the Second Vatican Council ensured that the Church would never be the same again. The Second Vatican Council, otherwise known as Vatican II, was a gathering of all the Bishops in the Catholic Church that was intended to "bring the Church up to date" (aggiornamento) as Pope J...

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