1. Martin Luther
... . He advocated a simpler, personal religion based on faith, a return to the spirit of the early church, the centrality of the scriptures in the liturgy and in the Christian life. The translation of the New Testament into German led to the acceptance of Luther's dialect to become the standard version of German. Luther's insistence that everyone should be literate attracted much of ... ...
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