A Biography of Martin Luther

This man which happens to be Martin Luther as you can see at the top of the page, was called a Protestant hero, a freedom fighter, a wise and insightful church leader by his supporters. Well, some people also called him a (n) heretic, an apostate, a profane terrorist, and a necessary evil or unwitting catalyst. But Luther called himself a simple monk or a simple Christian, I may add, and that’s what kind of changed the course of Western history (it started as a shock to the people).

Martin Luther was born on November 10^th of the year 1483, in Eisleben, Germany, and he died on February 18^th of the year 1546. Before I go there, I would like to talk about his life or in other words, a biography about Martin Luther. Martin Luther was the son of Hans and Magarete (Lindemann) Luther. After he was born, their family moved from Eisleben to Mansfeld. After all, Luther wasn’t the only son of his parents. He had three other brothers. Two died during outbreaks of the plague, and the other by the name of James, lived to adulthood. Luther’s father was a successful minor and smelter, and I think his mother was a housewife or something.

Luther was not only a German monk, but he was also a priest, professor, theologian, and a church reformer. He taught things that were dealing with the Reformation and it influenced the doctrines and culture of the Lutheran and Protestant traditions they had, and also of the Western civilization. Martin Luther's life and work influenced the development of western culture in other ways as well. His translation of the Bible furthered the development of a standard version of the German language and added several principles to the art of translation. His translation significantly influenced the English King James Version of the Bible. Due to the recently developed printing press, his writings were widely read, influencing many subsequent Protestant Reformers and thinkers.

Luther enjoyed music and believed that it would help people worship and praise God. He encouraged Christians to sing at church, home, or at work (basically, everywhere they went). Luther's hymns, including his best-known "A Mighty Fortress is Our God”, inspired the development of congregational singing within Christianity. He got married on June 13, 1525, to Katherine von Bora. He decided to get married in order to set an example for other Protestant families and to rear children to serve the Lord.

In 1517, Luther posted the Ninety-Five Theses on the University’s chapel door. They set out a devastating critique of the church’s sale of indulgences and explained the fundamentals of justification by grace alone. In Rome, cardinals saw Luther’s theses as an attack on papal authority. In 1518 at a meeting of the Augustinian Order in Heidelberg, Luther posted his positions with even more precision. In the Heidelberg Disputation, we see the signs of a maturing in Luther’s thought and new clarity surrounding his theological perspective – the Theology of the Cross.

In January 1521, the pope excommunicated Luther. In March, he was summonsed by Emperor Charles V to Worms to defend himself. During the Diet of Worms, Luther refused to recant his position. Luther refused to recant and on May 8^th he was placed under Imperial Ban, and was outlawed.

From 1533 to his death in 1546 he served as the Dean of the theology faculty at Wittenberg. He died in Eisleben on February 18, 1546.

North America

North America is a continent in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost fully in the western hemisphere. It is bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean on the southeast by the Caribbean Sea and on the south and west by the North Pacific Ocean; South America lies to the southeast. It covers an area of about 24,490,000 sq km (9,450,000 sq mi), or about 4.8% of the planet's surface. As of October 2006, its population was estimated at over 514,600,000. It is the third-largest continent in area, after Asia, and Africa and is fourth in population after Asia, Africa, and Europe.




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Antarctica

Antarctica is a continent located literally at the bottom of the world. The weather there is extremely cold. Antarctica is almost completely covered by ice and snowfor much of the year. Very few people live there, except in the small towns of McMurdo and Palmer on the seashore. There is a science station at the South Pole where experiments are done relating mostly to weather and outer space exploration.

Antarctica is the only continent with no countries in it. By international treaty, none of the land in Antarctica really belongs to any country.

There are very few plants in Antarctica; the only large air-breathing animals are penguins, seals, and whales.

Antarctica is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Indian Ocean, but more lately, the seas right around it have together been called the "Southern Ocean". The next nearest continent is South America.

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Europe

Europe consists of forty-five countries. Some of them are:
Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Italy, and France. Europe is one of the seven continents of the world. Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea, and – according to the traditional geographic definition – to the south-east by the waterways adjoining the Mediterranean to and including the Black Sea and the Caucasus Mountains.

Europe is the world's second-smallest of the seven traditional continents in terms of area, covering about 10 400 000 square kilometers (4,010,000 sq mi) or 2.0% of the Earth's surface. The only continent smaller than Europe is Australia. In terms of population, it is the third-largest continent (Asia and Africa are larger) with a population of some 710,000,000, or about 11% of the world's population.