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...play moves like a storm between two anchoring calms. It begins in the cloistered serenity of a monastery in 1506, as Brother Martin kneels in submissive piety to receive the monk's habit of the Augustinian Order of Eremites. It ends 21 years later in a secularized cloister in Wittenberg with the married Luther, his fierce fires banked in domesticity, cradling his infant son as he walks the night much like any other father. In between are the earthquake blows with which Luther split the earthly crust of Christendom...
...Unworthy Friar. It was the sale of indulgences for good works that touched off Martin Luther to publish his 95 theses at Wittenberg. As a devout young Augustinian friar, Luther had been obsessed by the thought of his unworthiness as a sinful man before God, and no routine of works, confession, penance or asceticism could mitigate his spiritual anxiety. But seated one day in the study of the monastery, as he later related, Luther suddenly gained an insight into what St. Paul meant by the just living by faith. Luther interpreted Paul to mean that the sinner was justified only...
Pope John's view of today's world owes little to the long-cherished Augustinian conception of it as divided into the City of God and the City of Man. To John, the church is not an exclusive club with its own narrow rules but a mother who must follow man into the mud as well as the sky. "It is the church that must bring Christ to the world," he said in a recent radio message. That is a never-ending task, to be attempted at a time when the world presents far more formidable obstacles to Christianity than...
Every schoolboy thinks he knows how the Reformation began: on Oct. 31, 1517, Augustinian Friar Martin Luther took hammer in hand and nailed his list of 95 angry theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. That challenge to church teaching has always been said to mark Luther's real break with Rome, and for more than 400 years Protestants have celebrated the anniversary of this clerical Sarajevo...
...century Bishop of Hippo and founder of the Augustinian philosophy, but the 6th century missionary, sent to England by Pope Gregory, who became the first Archbishop of Canterbury...