Many Protestant churches are now organized by either congregational or presbyterian church polities, both descended from the writings of John Calvin, a Protestant reformer working and writing independently following the break with the Roman Catholic Church precipitated by The Ninety-Five Theses of Martin Luther.

David Davalos ' Wittenberg is a " tragical-comical-historical " prequel to Hamlet that depicts the Danish prince as a student at Wittenberg University ( now known as the University of Halle-Wittenberg ), where he is torn between the conflicting teachings of his mentors John Faustus and Martin Luther.

A former pupil of an eminent German scholar and educationist Valentin Friedland, Martin Helwig went on to study at the University of Wittenberg where as a student of Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon he earned the academic degree of Magister, in 1552 he became Rector of St. Maria Magdalena School in Breslau ( now Wrocław, in Poland ).

Esarey went on to graduate from Cedarville University and Luther Rice Seminary and now pastors a growing church in Ohio.

Auden, September 1, 1939: " Accurate scholarship can / Unearth the whole offense / From Luther until now / That has driven a culture mad, Find what occurred at Linz ...." To the end of his life, Hitler considered Linz to be his " home town ", and envisioned extensive architectural schemes for it, wanting it to become the main cultural centre of the Third Reich.

They are the Walter P. Jennings home, which is large, with an equally large porch and is now owned by Luther Griners ; the B. F. Woodward home, now remodeled and owned by Mrs. Robert Tuten ; the home of the late Maggie and Joel McCall was built by the late J. R. Jennings, and is now owned by the Hendrick family.

It is believed that Luther Stiles and Ludovicus Robbins were the first white permanent settlers in the territory now known as Algansee Township.

The Parker House was built around 1906 by Luther Parker, a local doctor, and is now a bed and breakfast.

A denser urban community with business district developed toward the central northern island between the McGilvara neighbourhood and Luther Burbank Park, within the latter of which a boarding school was built, and now composes the majority of the island's crest through the Middle Island neighbourhood.

It is now combined with the University of Wittenberg and called the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.

After losing the Macon Braves, Macon now has a new minor league team known as the Macon Pinetoppers that calls Luther Williams Field " home ".

Selten was born in Breslau ( Wrocław ) in Lower Silesia, now in Poland, to a Jewish father, Adolf Selten, and Protestant mother, Käthe Luther.

The seminary moved to Luther Theological Seminary ( now Luther Seminary ) in St. Paul in 1963 when the Lutheran Free Church merged with the American Lutheran Church.

According to Philipp Melanchthon, writing in 1546, Luther " wrote theses on indulgences and posted them on the church of All Saints on 31 October 1517 ", an event now seen as sparking the Protestant Reformation.

It is now celebrated as Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

* Northwestern College ( Wisconsin ) now part of Martin Luther College

The duke now lost no time in pressing on the teaching of the reformed doctrines of Luther and Zwingli.

On British Eurosport James Richardson previously hosted the coverage of Serie A football on the Channel from 2002 to 2005 and 2004 UEFA European Football Championship with regular guests including Alan Curbishley, DJ Spoony, former Chelsea FC players Paul Elliott, Ed de Goey, Ray Wilkins, Roberto Di Matteo & former Chelsea goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini now at Tottenham Hotspur, former England International Luther Blissett and European football journalists Gabriele Marcotti & Xavier Rivoire.

They were also commissioned to design a major park project in Buffalo, New York, which included The Parade ( now Martin Luther King, Jr. Park ), The Park ( now the Delaware Park ), and The Front ( now simply Front Park ).

The play does mention Wittenberg, where Hamlet, Horatio, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern attend university, and where Martin Luther first proposed his 95 theses in 1517, effectively ushering in the Protestant Reformation.

William Luther Pierce, founder of the white nationalist National Alliance, sought to promote NSBM as well as other forms of white nationalist music through Resistance Records, believing that music would ' make the National Alliance rich and spread its message most effectively '.

John Calvin reflected an intermediate position between that of Luther and Reformed theologians such as Zwingli, stressing Biblical precedents for church governance, but as a tool to more effectively proclaim the gospel rather than as ends in themselves.

The Protestant reformer Martin Luther denied it was the work of an apostle and termed it an " epistle of straw " as compared to some other books in the New Testament, not least because of the conflict he thought it raised with Paul on the doctrine of justification ( see below ).

As the authorities in Rome were anxious to contain the fire started by Luther, the Bishop of Constance denied any support of Sanson and he was recalled.

Here the English Reformer parted company with both Luther and Calvin, who denied that a man would ever reach a state in this life in which he could not fall into sin.

" However, it can not be denied that Luther was the more magnanimous, for however much he was at times dissatisfied with Melanchthon's actions, he never uttered a word against his private character ; but Melanchthon, on the other hand, sometimes evinced a lack of confidence in Luther.

The blacklisting of some Protestant scholars even when writing on subjects a modern reader would consider outside the realm of dogma meant that, unless they obtained a dispensation, obedient Catholic thinkers were denied access to the botanist Conrad Gesner's Historiae animalium or the botanical works of Otto Brunfels, those of the medical scholar Janus Cornarius, to Christoph Hegendorff or Johann Oldendorp on the theory of law, Protestant geographers and cosmographers like Jacob Ziegler or Sebastian Münster, as well as anything by Protestant theologians like Martin Luther, John Calvin or Philipp Melancthon.

Upon the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., he denied the slain civil rights leader the honor of lying in state in the Georgia state capitol after being told by undercover agents in the Atlanta Police Department that there was a planned storming of the state capitol by participants in the crowd of mourners.

The Ninety-Five Theses not only denounced such transactions as worldly but denied the Pope's right to grant pardons on God's behalf in the first place: the only thing indulgences guaranteed, Luther said, was an increase in profit and greed, because the pardon of the Church was in God's power alone.

Only these three can be regarded as sacraments because of their divine institution and the divine promises of salvation connected with them ; but strictly speaking, only Baptism and the Eucharist are sacraments, since only they have " divinely instituted visible sign ": water in Baptism and bread and wine in the Eucharist .< ref >< cite > Schaff-Herzog, " Luther, Martin ," 71 .</ ref > Luther denied in this document that Confirmation, Matrimony, Holy Orders, and Extreme Unction were sacraments.

The first Relief release was also his first Green Velvet production, 1993's " Velvet Tracks ," which came from a name given to him by a girlfriend's dad, emerged as the flamboyant, neon-haired electro punk, although in interviews he denied being linked to the Punk lifestyle and fashion, as he was more inspired by the likes of David Bowie and Sly and the Family Stone, he created excellent mid-1990s hits such as " Preacher Man ," on which a Moral Majority-type of preacher spoke ( the Reverend Clarence LaVaughn Franklin-father of Aretha Franklin and ally of Martin Luther King, Jr .); " Answering Machine ," a darkly funny house track consisting of taped messages from an answering machine, including a bad news message from a girlfriend and a noise complaint message from his landlord — all made with Jones's voice ; and " Flash ," which was a # 1 US dance hit in 1995 and was included on many DJ-mixed compilation albums.

Luther's rehabilitation has been denied however by the Vatican: " Rumors that the Vatican is set to rehabilitate Martin Luther, the 16th-century leader of the Protestant Reformation, are groundless ," said the Vatican spokesman, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi.

Simultaneously Protestant Reformation under German Martin Luther questioned Papal authority.

Calvin's authority was practically uncontested during his final years, and he enjoyed an international reputation as a reformer distinct from Martin Luther.

This confrontation with Luther confirmed More ’ s theological conservatism, and from then on his work was devoid of all hints of criticism of Church authority.

* July 4 – Martin Luther joins the debate regarding papal authority against John Eck at Leipzig.

The protests against the corruption emanating from Rome began in earnest when Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk at the university of Wittenberg, called in 1517 for a reopening of the debate on the sale of indulgences and the authority to absolve sin and remit one from purgatory.

Luther borrowed from the humanists the sense of individualism, that each man can be his own priest ( an attitude likely to find popular support considering the rapid rise of an educated urban middle class in the North ), and that the only true authority is the Bible, echoing the reformist zeal of the conciliar movement and opening up the debate once again on limiting the authority of the Pope.

:* the respect for temporal ( secular ) authority, which had been emphasized by Luther and has arguable scriptural support ( Romans 13 )

Martin Luther and John Calvin hold that the Spirit has a certain " interpretive authority " to " illuminate " scripture, while Counter-reformation theologians respond that the Spirit has authorized the Church to serve as authoritative interpreter of Scripture.

In his Colloqium Cochlaei cum Luthero, Cochlaeus reported on his discussion with Luther on April 24, 1521, about issues, such as the origin of Luther's doctrine of predestination, the Eucharist, and the authority of the Bible.

The Protestants proclaimed their determination to adhere to the terms of the Augsburg Confession, and, in addition, formally repudiated the authority of the Roman pontiff and " would admit no other judge of the controversy than Jesus Christ "; both Pope Paul III and Luther predicted failure.

It was the natural consequence of Martin Luther ’ s sola scriptura doctrine, which asserts that Scripture is the highest authority, and that it can be relied on alone in all things pertaining to salvation and the Christian life.

The Prophets then reportedly confronted Luther in order to assert the authority of the Spirit-mediated message over Luther and his gospel.

:* the respect for temporal ( secular ) authority, which had been emphasized by Luther and has ample scriptural support ( Romans 13 )

He met with Luther in Altenburg on 5 – 6 January 1519, and negotiated a tentative settlement to the controversy: Luther would remain silent on the indulgence issue, write a conciliatory letter to the pope, and write and publish a tract supporting papal authority.

Augustin von Alveld or Alvelt ( 1480 – c. 1535 ) was a teacher and provincial for Saxony of the Franciscan order, who was opposed to Martin Luther on the question of papal authority.