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The story of Luther begins in the year 1505 with young Luther' s experience of a storm. A bolt of lightning - "a fright sent from heaven" - lands quite close to him. This prompts him to hang up his study of law and apply the following day for an Augustinian monastery. The film narrates further Luther's pilgrimage to Rome (1510), nailing the 95 theses on the door in Wittenberg (1517), his resistance to Cardinal Cajetan's order to recant his theses (1518) and his appearance before Emperor Charles V during the Diet of Worms (1521).
<h3><span style="color: #993366;">Passionate Man who is Outlawed</span></h3>
Luther's life as outlaw - excommunicated and banned by Pope as well as Emperor - is also depicted in the film, as well as his "exile" in the tower of the Wartburg castle, where he translated the entire New Testament into German within eleven weeks, and his subsequent return to Wittenberg (1522), where at that moment peasant rioters destroyed churches and attact priests and monks.
Interwoven in all of these historical events: the life led by Martin Luther as a young man full of visions. Spirited with a deep faith, he was also embarrassed by serious temptations.
<h3><span style="color: #993366;">The German Reformer</span></h3>
To today's audience his conflicts should appear timeless through the medieval cowl. What emerges here with Luther is an unknown picture of the German reformer and, indeed, anything but invented: because in this youth lay a truly perplexing power, and it broke out as uncontrolled as naive - "willed of God as well as a force of nature" (Martin Luther). This perspective has of course been buried under a mass of pious teaching through the centuries, and is still to be found adhering to the famous portraits painted by Lucas Cranach of the old Luther: whoever knows only these must believe that the corpulent family man seen there had never been young.
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Luther Joseph Fiennes 2003
The story of Luther begins in the year 1505 with young Luther’ s experience of a storm. A bolt of lightning – “a fright sent from heaven” – lands quite close to him. This prompts him to hang up his study of law and apply the following day for an Augustinian monastery. The film narrates further Luther’s pilgrimage to Rome (1510), nailing the 95 theses on the door in Wittenberg (1517), his resistance to Cardinal Cajetan’s order to recant his theses (1518) and his appearance before Emperor Charles V during the Diet of Worms (1521).
Passionate Man who is Outlawed
Luther’s life as outlaw – excommunicated and banned by Pope as well as Emperor – is also depicted in the film, as well as his “exile” in the tower of the Wartburg castle, where he translated the entire New Testament into German within eleven weeks, and his subsequent return to Wittenberg (1522), where at that moment peasant rioters destroyed churches and attact priests and monks.
Interwoven in all of these historical events: the life led by Martin Luther as a young man full of visions. Spirited with a deep faith, he was also embarrassed by serious temptations.
The German Reformer
To today’s audience his conflicts should appear timeless through the medieval cowl. What emerges here with Luther is an unknown picture of the German reformer and, indeed, anything but invented: because in this youth lay a truly perplexing power, and it broke out as uncontrolled as naive – “willed of God as well as a force of nature” (Martin Luther). This perspective has of course been buried under a mass of pious teaching through the centuries, and is still to be found adhering to the famous portraits painted by Lucas Cranach of the old Luther: whoever knows only these must believe that the corpulent family man seen there had never been young.
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Would you like to support our Foundation? Do you know of a teenage girl who loves to read books? Here’s a link to one of our fundraisers – a teen book titled The Bravehearts of Belgrave High. Click on the following link to read more: The Tolemac Chronicles
Or donate via the link that you see on our blog site at: Loving Heart Foundation blog
