#77 Martin Luther & the Reformation with Donald Fortson

The Road to Now

Benjamin Sawyer

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 629 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther delivered his 95 Theses to the Catholic Church. We don't know for sure if Luther actually nailed them to the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church, but we do know that his work changed the world.

In recognition of the five-hundredth anniversary of Martin Luther's Theses, Bob and Ben are joined by Church Historian Dr. Donald Fortson. Dr. Fortson explains the reasons Luther chose to issue his Theses, the context in which he wrote them, and how a devout member of the Catholic Church became a reluctant revolutionary in reforming western Christianity.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Road to Now, where we look to the past and everywhere in between to understand the present.
0:18.1	I'm Bob Crawford and joining me as always is Dr. Ben Sawyer.
0:21.9	Great to be here. It's great to be here, Bob. Ben, we have a big anniversary coming up on Tuesday.
0:27.7	We do. 2017 is a year of revolutions, and the first one we're going to cover in a series on these is the Protestant Reformation, the Revolution, Martin Luther, and we got a
0:39.4	great guest for today. Yes, Dr. Don Fortson from Reform Theological Seminary in Charlotte was
0:45.9	gracious enough to join us to speak about who many consider the first modern man, Martin Luther. But, you know, revolutions don't happen in a
0:57.7	vacuum, right, Ben? They don't. There's a lot of things going on around Martin Luther that were
1:02.2	creating, we'll say, laying fertilizer for those seeds that Martin Luther throws down to grow in.
1:08.3	Yes, he was just, he was kind of the man for his times, right?
1:11.9	He was the guy that saw his moment in history or just by following his heart and his devotion
1:18.6	to God found himself the match that sparked a fire that's been burning for 500 years.
1:25.7	Yeah, it goes back to that, one of the great sayings of all of history, I think, about history by Carl Mark's.
1:31.8	Men make history, but not in the conditions of their own choosing.
1:35.9	We are all born into a world that we did not create, and what's next is our decision,
1:41.5	but what came before, we had nothing to do with.
1:44.5	Well said.
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2:37.5	Dr. Fortson, welcome to the road to now.
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