{"id":1728,"date":"2016-04-26T11:09:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T15:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2016-04-26T11:09:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T15:09:45","slug":"october-31-1517-martin-luther-and-the-day-that-changed-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/october-31-1517-martin-luther-and-the-day-that-changed-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"October 31, 1517: Martin Luther and the Day That Changed the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Booklist Review <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1729 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1517-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"1517\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1517-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1517-103x150.jpg 103w, https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/1517.jpg 443w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/>The date that entitles this brief quincentennial prologue may not be immediately recognizable, but it was momentous. On it, Martin Luther posted 95 theses about Christian faith on the door of a church in Wittenberg, Saxony, and launched the Protestant Reformation. While directly prompted by the selling of indulgences, whereby the buyer reduced suffering for sins, the document was fundamentally about salvation through Christ. Luther asserted that salvation was effected by God\u2019s grace alone, approached by faith alone. Faith was manifested by repentance: \u201cthe whole life of believers should be penitence,\u201d says the first thesis. Marty, the dean of American Lutheran church historians, argues that, eventually, Luther\u2019s stance, from the beginning acknowledged by the Catholic Church as essentially correct (disagreement\u2019s in the details), became the means of reunifying Christianity through ecumenism, a movement that became explicit and official with the Second Vatican Council of 1962\u201365. This volume is small but weighty and a solid addition for all modern Christianity collections.<\/p>\n<p>Ray Olson<\/p>\n<p>Marty, Martin E. (author).<br \/>\nMay 2016. 128p. Paraclete, hardcover, $19.99<br \/>\n(9781612616568). 284.109.<br \/>\nREVIEW. First published April 15, 2016 (Booklist).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Booklist Review The date that entitles this brief quincentennial prologue may not be immediately recognizable, but it was momentous. On it, Martin Luther posted 95 theses about Christian faith on the door of a church in Wittenberg, Saxony, and launched &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/october-31-1517-martin-luther-and-the-day-that-changed-the-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paraclete-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}