Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. We have been spending this whole month together

trekking through the life and thought and legacy of Luther and now in these final three days of the month

We are here at this very important place. These are probably

the most famous doors in church history and they might even be the most famous

doors in history. We are standing in front of the doors of the castle church,

the slosh kirka here in Vittenberg.

The doors behind me are not the original doors. These are not the original doors.

These are not the wooden doors

that Luther nailed the 95 Theses too.

Those doors are long since gone.

These are bronze doors.

They're very heavy. They weigh 2,200 pounds and sketched on these doors in Latin is all 95 of the 95 theses. These famous doors are the Thiessen Door in German.

These are the doors where Luther nailed the 95 theses.

To set the stage here, Luther is very troubled

by what is happening in his church.

He's troubled by this indulgence sale.

We've been talking about this.

He's troubled by other practices in the church, and he's troubled

both in his role as a minister and in his role as a doctor of theology.

In fact, in the preface to the 95 theses, Luther says this,

out of love for the truth and the desire to bring it to light,

the following propositions will be discussed at Vittenberg.

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