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...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...
...goggle-eyed monk Tetzel (Peter Bull) dips a grasping tentacle into every pocket as he makes a carnival-pitchman's promise of pardon for sins committed or intended by persons living or dead, provided one buys a letter of indulgence. After Luther nails his 95 theses to the Wittenberg door, he is summoned by the papal legate Cajetan (John Moffatt). Cajetan is a sly Roman cat who hopes to toy with a provincial mouse. Instead he faces a German mas tiff, correct but bristling. Cajetan employs tact, diplomacy, the accumulated wisdom of the church. Held in the awe some...
...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...
Luther himself, when he tacked his 95 theses on the door of a Wittenberg church in 1517, had no wish to split from the catholic and apostolic church in Rome. In a report to the assembly, the federation's commission on theology reported that "we cannot today casually dismiss the theological teaching of the Roman Church as patently false, unbiblical and unevangelical." Said Franklin Clark Fry, outgoing president of the federation: "Lutheran churches are prepared in spirit to reach out to brethren everywhere in a search for the fuller oneness of all who call Christ Lord in the midst...
...clothes.' " He failed. Grizzard is a buttoned-up Hamlet in a buttoned-down shirt, a bland suburbanite puzzled by the mess he is in, but with no hint of being the terrible plaything of destiny. He is the nice boy who always got good marks at Wittenberg U., never dented the family convertible, was engaged to that sweet Ophelia girl next door, and then inexplicably got his name splashed all over the tabloids by his revolting behavior toward his mother and girl friend, not to mention that gory mass-murder spree. One can hear the neighbors saying, "Hamlet...