... the gospel of Christ, that it had nothing of the nature of the gospel about it. Martin Luther actually placed the book of James at the end of his German Translation of the New Testament. The books of Hebrews, Jude, and Revelation soon joined the book of James. Martin Luther detested these books so much that he did not list them ... in the table of contents. Even the modern editions of the German translation still has these books at the end, only now they are included in the table of contents. Even today, the book of James is still not as popular as other ... ...

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... , a deep understanding for Scripture to be a devout Christian. Since Scripture was up to individual interpretation rather than through a priest, the reliance on priests for religious matters is minimized, and the translation of the Latin Bible to German allowed this to become a reality. But as the Reformation took hold, there was "growing resentment of clerical exemptions from rules binding ordinary people ... ...

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... interpretation. As more people continued to become followers of Martin due to his teachings being simplified, he decided to even further make his teachings accessible by creating the first German translation of the Bible. Martin's ideas flourished throughout Germany and the rest of Europe, but by a copy of his German Bible being sent around, rather than his own religious documents, people ... ...

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... gospel. As the Pharisees had done in Jesus" time, the church had taken God's word and defamed it. They had essentially transformed it into something completely different through their erroneous translation of the Word. It was no longer a gospel that reflected God's grace and love. Rather, it was a legalistic system, based on good works and the purchase of indulgences. The way ... ...

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... shelter at the Wartburg Castle, where he was treated with class. There, he translated the Bible into German to make the scripture available to any reading person. He completed his translation in 1534. In 1529, Luther organized the Lutheran church, which was entirely separate from the old church of Catholicism. In June 1525, Martin Luther married Catherine von Bora. Martin married ... ...

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... . 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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... safe. God help me. Amen." Excommunicated and condemned by the Church, he sought refuge at Wartburg Castle, protected by the elector Frederick the Wise of Saxony. There, he began his translation of the Bible, an important step in the development of the modern German language" (Bainton 1997: 144-148). Perhaps one of the main key factors in the rapid spread of ... ...

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... so by scripture he would not "since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience." Perhaps Martin Luther's greatest attribution to the development of modern religion was his translation of the bible from Latin to German. This allowed nearly everyone the ability to read the bible for themselves and make there own conclusions on what the literary work meant ... ...

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... died in Eisleben,Germany, the town of his birth, in February 1546. By order of the Elector of Saxony Luther was buried in the Castle Church in Wittenberg. With his translation of the Bible into German, Martin Luther attained a permanent legacy as Father of the Protestant Reformationand and as far as a unification of the German language was concerned. Today some 70 ... ...

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... the Pope, Christian dogma, and liberty of priests. On the other hand, their beliefs conflicted in the areas of: salvation and government. The two had many similar practices including: the translation of the Bible into vernacularism, the use of propaganda, the non-celibacy of the clergy, the denouncing of female priests, iconoclast activities, and the stale environment of the churches. However ... ...

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