Review of Martin Luther

Martin Luther is one of the most influential persons in human history. His figure's importance to Christianity is comparable with the authority and importance of Jesus Christ. The reformation Martin Luther initiated still has very much influence on the Christian world it created a new major division in addition to Great Schism added, the division between Protestant Christianity and Catholicism. This shattered the religious, social, and political stability in Europe for centuries. Such a person is more than worthy of a film dedicated to his life, deeds, ideas he believed in, and the world he changed forever. This film perfectly achieves the goal to portray such a great man in all his might, intellect, and greatness. The first key aspects of his life that are given attention are the roots of his religious views and religious views themselves. One of the first scenes demonstrates the tedious nitty-gritty of the Catholic monks who clean the floor stubbornly. Another technic which the author uses successfully is shade. Shades in the monastery demonstrate stagnation, conservatism, and oppression in relationships between monks in one facet, and between monks and the Church on the other. This shows an atmosphere where our hero develops and looks for truth and is trying to escape the darkness, strictness, and to some extent mercilessness of the church and its orders. This coincides with a crisis in his life. In 1505 number of his friends die, he also faces a lightning storm, which results in him becoming one of the Augustinian monks, who usually punish themselves physically ("Protestant Reformation: Part I"). This does not help him to cope with the crisis. His search and crisis reflect the same process humanity faces. His search for truth is a reflection or far consequence humanist movement of the Renaissance. Humanism was interested in the rediscovery of classics, Latin, and the Bible ("Protestant Reformation: Part I"). Similarly to this, Martin Luther is in search of himself and search of the true religious meaning of the Bible. Here one of his future doctrine concepts emerges, sola scriptura. Along with solo fide (justification by faith alone), solo scriptura forms a milestone in the teaching of Marin Luther ("Protestant Reformation: Part I"). This change is properly shown in an argument with the head of the monastery, where Martin Luther shatters the authority of pope and church since he finds no support for it in the scripture. The scene with drunken men who bought an indulgence, which shocks Martin shows another shift in his beliefs. This situation shows the minimum value of deeds in the salvation of the person and forges another principle of Martin Luther's teaching, solo fide (salvation from faith alone). Another important aspect of the film is the demonstration of his ideas spread and get mature. The ideas of Martin Luther King did not gain support immediately after the famous "95 theses" were released at Wittenberg. The ideas of Martin Luther spread gradually across all walks of medieval society. One of the first scenes showing his work over and publication of "95 Theses" shows that it was initially unnoticed by broad walks. Firstly we see monks reading and working with "95 Theses ". Clergy as an educated class engaged in administration and social control first faces new advancement in Christian theology. Then a nobleman is shown. This point is more important because nobility was the most influential social group in Medieval society It aggregated all political and economic resources of society and its opinion could play a decisive role in the fate of Martin Luther's teaching. It is important to remind about the forerunner of Martin Luther, the morning star of reformation, John Wycliffe, whose ideas were similar to Martin Luther's but didn't succeed. John Wycliffe, like Martin Luther, found no scriptural support in Bib church policies (indulgences) and Papal authority ("Protestant Reformation: Part I"). However, Wycliffe's ideas resembled religious leaders of peasant revolts ("Protestant Reformation: Part I"). This was dangerous to nobility. On the contrary, Martin Luther published the work "Against Thieving Murderous Hordes of Peasants" ("Protestant Reformation: Part I"). This secured his crucial relationship with the nobility that tremendously contributed to the success of Reformation, unlike ideas of Wycliffe not supported by powerful nobility. So, we can see how the producers of this film effectively signify the importance of nobility. His ideas also spread better since they were more willing to negotiate with civic authorities. Another Protestant leader Calvin preaches that if the prince orders something against Gog we should not follow him (John Calvin, "Instruction in faith", p. 238). It appealed to the disadvantaged and potentially dangerous petty nobility in France ("The Protestant Reformation: Part II"). As we can see, demonstrating the success of Martin Luther and signifying the importance of nobility creators of the film implicitly distinguish Martin Luther from Wycliffe and Calvin. This film is more than a mere biography of Martin Luther. This book is a treasury of theological and historical material that forms a unique symphony orchestrating the rise of tremendous change in Christianity.