Share this Rating. Title: Luther (1974) 6.8 /10. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. The culmination of English translations of the Bible, featuring full-text search, content-based chapter guides and quick verse finder. See also: Previous Features. Directed by Eric Till. With Joseph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Peter Ustinov, Alfred Molina. During the early 16th Century idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by.
Martin Luther King Jr. Wikipedia. Martin Luther King Jr. King in 1. 96. 41st President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In office. 19. 57–1. Preceded by. Inaugural holder.
Subjects. English, social studies. Estimated Time. One 45-minute class. Grade Level. Middle School. Introduction. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a.
Succeeded by. Ralph Abernathy. Personal details. Born. Michael King Jr.(1. January 1. 5, 1. 92. Atlanta, Georgia, U.
S. Died. April 4, 1. Memphis, Tennessee, U. S. Cause of death. Assassination. Spouse(s)Coretta Scott (m. 1.
Children. Parents. Relatives. Alma mater. Occupation. Known for. Civil Rights Movement, Peace movement. Awards. Monuments. Martin Luther King Jr.
Memorial. Signature. Martin Luther King Jr. Michael King Jr., January 1. April 4, 1. 96. 8) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using the tactics of nonviolence and civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs and inspired by the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi. King became a civil rights activist early in his career.
He led the 1. 95. Montgomery bus boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1.
With the SCLC, King led an unsuccessful 1. Albany, Georgia, and helped organize the 1. Birmingham, Alabama. King also helped to organize the 1. March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
On October 1. 4, 1. King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. In 1. 96. 5, he helped to organize the Selma to Montgomery marches, and the following year he and SCLC took the movement north to Chicago to work on segregated housing. In the final years of his life, King expanded his focus to include opposition towards poverty and the Vietnam War, alienating many of his liberal allies with a 1. Beyond Vietnam". In 1. King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.
C., to be called the Poor People's Campaign, when he was assassinated by James Earl Ray on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee. King's death was followed by riots in many U. S. cities. Ray, who fled the country, was arrested two months later at London Heathrow Airport. Ray was sentenced to 9. King's murder, and died in 1. King was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established as a holiday in numerous cities and states beginning in 1.
U. S. federal holiday in 1. Hundreds of streets in the U. Watch The Prophecy Online Goodvideohost. S. have been renamed in his honor, and a county in Washington State was also renamed for him. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.
C., was dedicated in 2. Early life and education. King was born on January 1. Atlanta, Georgia, to the Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. Alberta Williams King (1. King's legal name at birth was Michael King,[2] and his father was also born Michael King, but the elder King changed his and his son's names following a 1.
Germany to attend the Fifth Baptist World Alliance Congress in Berlin. It was during this time he chose to be called Martin Luther King in honor of the German reformer Martin Luther.[3][unreliable source?][4] King's parents were both African- American, and he also had Irish ancestry through his paternal great- grandfather.[5][6][7]King was a middle child, between an older sister, Willie Christine King, and a younger brother, Alfred Daniel Williams King. King sang with his church choir at the 1. Atlanta premiere of the movie Gone with the Wind.[9] King liked singing and music.
His mother was an accomplished organist and choir leader, and she took him to various churches to sing. He received attention for singing "I Want to Be More and More Like Jesus." King later became a member of the junior choir in his church.[1. King said that his father regularly whipped him until he was fifteen; a neighbor reported hearing the elder King telling his son "he would make something of him even if he had to beat him to death." King saw his father's proud and fearless protests against segregation, such as King Sr. When King was a child, he befriended a white boy whose father owned a business near his family's home.
When the boys were six, they started school: King had to attend a school for African Americans and the other boy went to one for whites (public schools were among the facilities segregated by state law). King lost his friend because the child's father no longer wanted the boys to play together.[1. King suffered from depression throughout much of his life.
In his adolescent years, he initially felt resentment against whites due to the "racial humiliation" that he, his family, and his neighbors often had to endure in the segregated South.[1. At the age of 1. 2, shortly after his maternal grandmother died, King blamed himself and jumped out of a second- story window, but survived.[1. King was skeptical of many of Christianity's claims. At the age of 1. 3, he denied the bodily resurrection of Jesus during Sunday school.[1. From this point, he stated, "doubts began to spring forth unrelentingly."[1.
However, he later concluded that the Bible has "many profound truths which one cannot escape" and decided to enter the seminary.[1. Growing up in Atlanta, King attended Booker T.
Washington High School. He became known for his public speaking ability and was part of the school's debate team.[1.
King became the youngest assistant manager of a newspaper delivery station for the Atlanta Journal in 1. During his junior year, he won first prize in an oratorical contest sponsored by the Negro Elks Club in Dublin, Georgia. Returning home to Atlanta by bus, he and his teacher were ordered by the driver to stand so that white passengers could sit down. King initially refused, but complied after his teacher told him that he would be breaking the law if he did not submit. King said that during this incident, he was "the angriest I have ever been in my life."[1. A precocious student, he skipped both the ninth and the twelfth grades of high school.[1.
During King's junior year in high school, Morehouse College, a respected historically black college, announced that it would accept any high school juniors who could pass its entrance exam. At that time, many students had abandoned further studies to enlist in World War II.
Due to this, Morehouse was eager to fill its classrooms. At the age of 1. 5, King passed the exam and entered Morehouse.[1. The summer before his last year at Morehouse, in 1. King chose to enter the ministry. He had concluded that the church offered the most assuring way to answer "an inner urge to serve humanity." King's "inner urge" had begun developing, and he made peace with the Baptist Church, as he believed he would be a "rational" minister with sermons that were "a respectful force for ideas, even social protest."[2. In 1. 94. 8, he graduated from Morehouse with a B.
A. in sociology and enrolled in Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with a B. Div. degree in 1. King's father fully supported his decision to continue his education.
While attending Crozer, King was joined by Walter Mc. Call, a former classmate at Morehouse.[2.
At Crozer, King was elected president of the student body.[2. The African- American students of Crozer for the most part conducted their social activity on Edwards Street. King became fond of the street because a classmate had an aunt who prepared collard greens for them, which they both relished.[2. King once reproved another student for keeping beer in his room, saying they had shared responsibility as African Americans to bear "the burdens of the Negro race." For a time, he was interested in Walter Rauschenbusch's "social gospel."[2. In his third year at Morehouse, King became romantically involved with the white daughter of an immigrant German woman who worked as a cook in the cafeteria. The daughter had been involved with a professor prior to her relationship with King.
Martin Luther - New World Encyclopedia. Martin Luther (November 1. February 1. 8, 1. Christianity, subsequently known as the Protestant Reformation. Essentially, Luther sought to recover core New Testament teachings that he claimed had been obscured by corruption and worldly traditions of medieval Catholicism. In particular, Luther opposed the idea, popularized by certain indulgence- sellers of his day, that one could buy salvation through monetary donations to the Church.
Ever against this, Luther held that human beings could be saved by faith alone (sola fides). He came to this understanding over the course of a long and tortuous personal struggle. Having resolved his inner conflicts by means of an "evangelical breakthrough," Luther began a public ministry that altered the course of Christianity and European history. Early life. Martin Luther was born on November 1. Eisleben, Germany, the son of Hans and Margaretha Luther. He was of peasant stock though his father had risen from the peasantry to own a coppermine. Two major influences characterized Luther’s upbringing.
One was the severity of his parents and early teachers. Their punishments, which included beatings, may have been typical of the historical period in which he was raised.
Nevertheless, Luther’s anxiety and fear of God as a severe judge was at least in part the result of his experience at home and in school. Luther, himself, later stated that the harshness and severity of the life he led compelled him later to run away to a monastery and become a monk. The second important influence upon Luther’s upbringing was education. His father was ambitious for Martin and desired that he pursue a career in law.
Having studied at schools in Mansfield, Magdenburg, and Eisenach, Luther entered the University of Erfurt in 1. In 1. 50. 2, he received the degree of bachelor of philosophy and in January 1. The University of Erfurt was self- consciously modern, a leading light of the humanist movement in Germany, enthusiastically committed to the study of the Bible and church fathers in the original Greek and correspondingly critical of medieval scholastic theology. Luther entered the law school at Erfurt in May 1. Then, in July, he suddenly abandoned his legal studies and entered a monastery of Augustinian friars.
Struggle to find peace with God. According to tradition, a near brush with death during a fierce thunderstorm was the immediate cause of Luther entering the cloister. He is reputed to have cried out, "St. Anne help me! I will become a monk." Others referred to his despondency over the death of a close friend. At a deeper level, Luther took monastic vows in order to cope with a pervasive sense of personal sinfulness and accompanying fear of an all- powerful, all- righteous God.
Unfortunately, Luther’s monastic sojourn accentuated rather than resolved his anxiety. Brother Martin fully dedicated himself to life in the monastery, the effort to do good works to please God, and to serve others through prayer.
Yet peace with God eluded him. He devoted himself to fasts, flagellations, long hours in prayer and pilgrimage, and constant confession. The more he tried to do for God, it seemed, the more aware he became of his sinfulness. His superior, Johann von Staupitz, advised him to study the mystics, following their path of surrender to the love of God. However, on self- examination, Luther found what he felt for God was not love but hatred.
Luther’s spiritual crisis had thereby driven him to commit blasphemy, which for him was the unpardonable sin. Evangelical breakthrough. Rather than counseling him out of the Augustinian order, Staupitz took the bold step of ordering Luther to study for his doctor’s degree, to begin preaching and to assume the chair of Bible at the recently established University of Wittenberg. By serving others, Staupitz reasoned, Luther might best address his own problems. In 1. 50. 7, Luther was ordained to the priesthood.
In 1. 50. 8, he began teaching theology at the University of Wittenberg. Luther earned his bachelor's degree in biblical studies on March 9, 1. Sentences by Peter Lombard, the main textbook of theology in the Middle Ages, in 1. On October 1. 9, 1.
Martin Luther became a doctor of theology, more specifically Doctor in Biblia, and became university professor of Bible. He offered exegetical lectures on Psalms (1. Romans (1. 51. 5- 1. Galatians (1. 51. Hebrews (1. 51. 7- 1.
In 1. 51. 2, he was appointed director of studies in his Augustinian cloister, and in 1. In 1. 51. 1, he began preaching within the cloister and in 1.
Wittenberg parish church. Luther’s "evangelical breakthrough" did not come all at once, but unfolded within the context of his teaching and pastoral responsibilities. Watch Asterix And The Big Fight Full Movie.
However, a turning point came in 1. Romans, in particular the passage on the "righteousness of God" (1: 1.
Luther previously regarded God’s righteousness as an impossible standard by which human beings were punished. Now, based on his immersion in Psalms and Romans, he came to see that the righteousness of God was a gift to be received. Christ, through the cross, had taken on all human iniquity and desolation.
To be righteous, one simply needed to accept this. Luther, following Saint Paul, affirmed that one who is righteous through faith "shall live." Once he understood that human beings were "justified" before God by faith and not works, Luther wrote, "I felt myself to be reborn and to have gone through open doors into paradise."At around about the time that he was writing his lectures on the Psalms, Luther experienced what he himself describes as the pivotal event of his life. This is known as the "revelation in the tower." The tower appears to refer to the monks' secret room, which may have been a toilet[1] In his psychological study of Luther, Erik H. Erikson (1. 99. 3) identifies this experience as one that transformed Luther from a "highly restrained and retentive individual" into an "explosive person" (2. This transformation may have been spiritual and psychological, but also physical—since until this experience Luther had suffered from constipation and urinal problems. However, he was also struggling with his father's disappointment as well as with his hatred for the justice of God.
Erikson says that the revelation in the tower occurred after Luther had a dream of an early death, and that it represented recovery from a deep depression. His subsequent redefinition of the relationship between God and Man "has striking configurations with the inner dynamic" of people who "recover from psychic distress" (2. Erikson says that Luther underwent the type of "sudden inner freedom…[a] cleansing…[a] kicking away" (2. Saint Paul's or Augustine's conversion. He refers four times in his writing at this time to Augustine's' conversion. Of course, faithful Christian believers often find this sort of "psychologizing" as incapable of grasping the simple truth of "rebirth" known clearly to millions of Christian believers, from the most simple to the most highly educated. Ladygrey Full Movie In English more. Luther came to regard this experience as his evangelical breakthrough, which was nothing less than the recovery of the authentic Christian gospel as one that transformed his attitude toward God.
He wrote, "Whereas the ‘justice of God’ had filled me with hate, it now became to me inexpressibly sweet." It also transformed his life. Internally, gratitude rather than compulsion served as the source of motivation for his work.
Externally, Luther’s breakthrough set him on a collision course with medieval Catholicism. The indulgence controversy. In 1. 51. 0, Luther went on a pilgrimage to Rome. This visit contributed significantly to his growing disillusionment with the power that the Catholic Church exercised over the people. He saw hundreds of people spending the little money they had to buy indulgences (remission from sin) for their deceased relatives. Initially, he did not perceive the challenge that his view of salvation presented to the Church.
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