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Title: Medieval and modern times; an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Robinson, James Harvey, 1863-1936
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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urt, After he finished hiscollege course and was about to take tip the study of the lawhe suddenly decided to become a monk. He summoned hiscollege friends for a last evening together, and the next morn-ing he led them to the gate of a monastery, bade them and theworld farewell, and became a begging friar.Luther He was much worried about his soul and feared that nothing professo/ no could do would save him from hell. He finally found comfortin the thought that in order to be saved he had only to believesincerely that Cod would save him, and that he could notpossibly save himself by trying to be good. He gained the re-spect of the head of the monastery, and when Frederick the Wiseof Saxony (Fig, 80) was looking about for teachers in his newuniversity at Wittenberg, Luther was recommended as a goodperson to teach Aristotle; so lie became a professor.Luther As time went on Luther began to be suspicious of some of Aristotle the things that were taught in the university. He finally deeided
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AeTHERNA IRSE SVAE MENTIS SIAAVLACHRA D/THEFV5BxPIRlAA.1T AT WIT VS CERA LVCAE OCCIDVOS Fig. 79. Luther as a Monk, by Cranach, (520 None of the portraits of Luther are very satisfactory. His friendCranach was not, like Holhein the Younger, a great portrait painter.This cut shows the reformer when his revolt against the Church wasjust beginning. He was thirty-seven years old and still in the dress ofan Augustinian friar, which he soon abandoned 289 290 Medieval and Modern Times Luthersidea ofsalvation Collectionfor rebuild-ing St. Peters Indulgences that Aristotle was after all only an ancient heathen who knewnothing about Christianity and that-the students had no businessto study his works. He urged them to rely instead upon theBible, especially the letters of St. Paul, and upon the writings ofSt. Augustine, who closely followed Paul in many respects. Luthers main point was that man, through Adams sin, hadbecome so corrupt that he could, of himself, do nothing pleas-ing to God. He cou

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