World and I, February 1st, 1999
Martin Luther (1483--1546) joined the Order of St. Augustine in 1506. Among his teachers were councilors as well as Nominalists, and when Luther went to the University of Wittenberg, in his native Saxony, as an Augustinian professor of theology in 1508, he found there a ferment of ideas produced by the assault on medieval Catholic thought. His own spiritual searching likewise played a role in the formation of a distinctly Protestant theology. We now know from sermons and lecture notes that Luther's theology had taken shape in his head well before the dramatic gesture of October 31, 1517, when...
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