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Lutheranism
Evangelical Lutheran Church
1517 CE – present · Abrahamic · Living · Germany, Scandinavia, Baltic states, US, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea
VI. REFORMATION & EARLY MODERN — 1500 – 1800
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- <strong>31 October 1517 CE</strong> Luther's Ninety-five Theses against indulgences. Whether he nailed them to the Wittenberg church door is uncertain; that he sent them to his archbishop is not.
- 1520 CE Luther burns the papal bull threatening excommunication.
- 1521 CE Diet of Worms. Luther refuses to recant before the emperor; he is outlawed, and hides at the Wartburg translating the New Testament in eleven weeks.
- 1524–25 CE German Peasants' War. Peasants invoke Luther's rhetoric of Christian freedom; Luther writes Against the Murderous, Thieving Hordes of Peasants, urging the princes to crush them. Perhaps 100,000 die. It is the darkest episode of his career.
- 1529 CE Marburg Colloquy; Luther and Zwingli fail to agree on the Eucharist.
- 1530 CE Augsburg Confession presented to the emperor.
- 1543 CE Luther publishes On the Jews and Their Lies, a viciously antisemitic tract later exploited by the Nazis and formally repudiated by Lutheran bodies in 1994 and after.
- 1555 CE Peace of Augsburg: cuius regio, eius religio — the ruler's religion is the territory's.
- 1618–48 CE Thirty Years War.
- 1675 CE Pietism begins with Spener, emphasising personal conversion over doctrinal correctness.
- 1934 CE Barmen Declaration; the Confessing Church, including Bonhoeffer, opposes the Nazified German Christians. Bonhoeffer is executed in 1945.
- <strong>1999 CE</strong> Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification signed by Lutherans and the Vatican, agreeing on the issue that split Western Christianity — 482 years later.
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