MASTERWORKS OF POLITICAL THEORY Midterm Essay Niccolo Machiavelli, Martin Luther, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke were four political theorists who shared a like mind in the need for the foundation of government and the extent to which its power and authority should reach. ... Later in this same century, Martin Luther began publishing his own theories on how political systems should be constructed. ... Luther's premise is that God's word sets forth good Christian behavior. ... Relying heavily on scripture, Martin Luther also proposed that God is the final judge in both the spirit...

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Leo X (the pope that excommunicated Martin Luther) appointed 6 cousins and nephews as cardinals" (Mackenney 1993: 4). ... It was Tetzel's irreverent sale of indulgences that eventually led Martin Luther to tack his 95 theses on the door of Wittenberg Castle in 1517. "Few people have had such an impact on so many fields as Martin Luther. ... "The Reformation began in 1517 by a German priest named Martin Luther, who publicly protested some of the abuses of the Roman Catholic Church" (Strayer 1995: 35). ... On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of t...

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Thomas Aquinas, and reformers like Martin Luther and Jean Calvin. ... Martin Luther's reform was effected by witchcraft. ... Martin Luther believes that he himself was touched by the devil. ... Martin Luther however used witchcraft in a different way; he used it in his own favor. ... Witchcraft was not something to be taken lightly, and Martin Luther knew that. ...

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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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