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Martin Luther , né le 10 novembre 1483 à Eisleben, en Thuringe et mort le 18 février 1546 dans la même ville, est un frère augustin théologien, professeur d'université, père du protestantisme,,, et réformateur de l'Église dont les idées exercèrent une grande influence sur la Réforme protestante, qui changea le cours de la civilisation occidentale.

Très préoccupé par son salut, il découvre la force libératrice de la foi en Jésus reçue à travers la Bible dans l'épître de Paul aux Romains. Selon Luther , le salut de l'âme est un libre don de Dieu, reçu par la repentance sincère et la foi authentique en Jésus-Christ comme le Messie, sans intercession possible de l'Église. Il défie l'autorité papale en tenant la Bible pour seule source légitime d'autorité chrétienne.

Le 3 janvier 1521, il est excommunié par la bulle pontificale Decet romanum pontificem. L'empereur du Saint-Empire romain germanique et roi d'Espagne, Charles Quint, convoque Martin Luther en 1521 devant la diète de Worms. Un sauf-conduit lui est accordé afin qu'il puisse s'y rendre sans risque. Devant la diète de Worms, il refuse de se rétracter, se déclarant convaincu par le témoignage de l'Écriture et s'estimant soumis à l'autorité de la Bible et de sa conscience plutôt qu'à celle de la hiérarchie ecclésiastique. La Diète de Worms, sous la pression de Charles Quint, décide alors de mettre Martin Luther et ses disciples au ban de l'Empire.

Il est accueilli par son ami l'électeur de Saxe Frédéric III le Sage au château de la Wartbourg, où il compose ses textes les plus connus et les plus diffusés. C'est là qu'il se lance dans une traduction de la Bible en allemand à partir des textes originaux, traduction dont l'influence culturelle sera primordiale, tant pour la fixation de la langue allemande que pour l'établissement des principes de l'art de la traduction.

Certaines de ses prises de position sur les Juifs de son temps furent mal interprétées et récupérées par Hitler et les nazis,. Pour cette raison, et pour les aspects révolutionnaires de sa théologie, son héritage a suscité et continue de susciter de multiples controverses.

✵ 10. novembre 1483 – 18. février 1546
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Martin Luther: Citations en anglais

“The true Gospel has it that we are justified by faith alone, without the deeds of the Law.”

Source: Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians (1535), Chapter 2

“I know God only as he became human, so shall I have him in no other way.”

Das Marburger religionsgesprach 1529: Versuch einer Rekonstruction (Leipzig, 1929), p. 27; also LW 38, 3-90

“We are beggars: this is true.”
Wir sind bettler. Hoc est verum.

Martin Luther livre Table Talk

"The Last Written Words of Luther," Table Talk No. 5468, (16 February 1546), in Dr. Martin Luthers Werke (1909) as translated by James A. Kellerman, Band 85 (TR 5) 317–318 http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/luther/beggars.txt
Table Talk (1569)

“And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, “If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it.” That is, “After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers.””

Against the Roman Papacy, An Institution of the Devil ( Wider das Papstum zu Rom vom Teuffel Gestifft, A. D. 1545) http://books.google.com/books?id=GLAMHQAACAAJ&dq=luther+1545+%22+das+papstum+%22&lr=

“Is Christ only to be adored? Or is the holy Mother of God rather not to be honoured? This is the woman who crushed the Serpent's head. Hear us. For your Son denies you nothing.”

Weimar edition of Martin Luther's Works, English translation edited by J. Pelikan [Concordia: St. Louis], Vol. 51, 128-129

“Let us keep to Christ, and cling to Him, and hang on Him, so that no power can remove us.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 433

“To turn one's eyes away from Jesus means to turn them to the Law.”

Source: Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians (1535), Chapter 2

“…women and girls begin to bare themselves behind and in front, and there is nobody to punish and hold in check, and besides, God’s word is mocked.”

To His Housewife (An Seine Hausfrau), end of July 1545, De Wette, vol. v (Fünfter Theil, 1828), p. 753. No. MMCCLXXXVI http://books.google.com/books?vid=0SgD2vFniuUDWUSHsu8FSM5&id=Ez96yjkxWYoC&pg=PA752&dq=Dr.+Martin+Luthers+Briefe,+Sendschreiben McGiffert, p. 374 (English tr.).
McGiffert, Arthur Cushman. Martin Luther: The Man and His Work http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC01594761&id=ySbbvfFlGLMC&pg=PP15&lpg=PA1&dq=%22Arthur+Cushman+McGiffert+%22 (Century, 1911), from Google Books. Reprint from Kessinger Publishing (July 2003), ISBN 076617431X

“There can be no doubt that the Virgin Mary is in heaven. How it happened we do not know.”

Weimar edition of Martin Luther's Works (Translation by William J. Cole) Vol. 10, p. 268

“Although indulgences are the very merits of Christ and of His saints and so should be treated with all reverence, they have in fact nonetheless become a shocking exercise of greed. For who actually seeks the salvation of souls through indulgences, and not instead money for his coffers? This is evident from the way indulgences are preached. For the commissioners and preachers do nothing but extol indulgences and incite the people to contribute. You hear no one instructing the people about what indulgences are, or about how much they grant, or about the purpose they serve. Instead, all you hear is how much one must contribute. The people are always left in ignorance, so that they come to think that by gaining indulgences they are at once saved.”

Tractatus de indulgentiis per Doctorem Martinum ordinis s. Augustini Wittenbergae editus., or, A Treatise on Indulgences Published by Doctor Martin of the Order of St. Augustine in Wittenberg. To Archbishop Albrecht of Mainz (31 October 1517) Luther's "forgotten" treatise was found in the Mainz archives “among the papers making up the correspondence between Archbishop Albrecht and the Mainz University faculty in December 1517” and published by F. Herrmann in the Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte (ZKG) in 1907, vol. 28, pp. 370-373. Catholic Luther scholar Jared Wicks S. J. believes this early treatise to be of considerable historical significance: "This document is the short treatise sketching a tentative theology of indulgences which Luther sent to Archbishop Albrecht of Mainz and Magdeburg on that fateful October 31, 1517. The other two documents of Luther's intervention are well known. First, there was the respectful, though urgent letter to the Archbishop in which Luther related the misunderstandings being spread by Tetzel's preaching and in which he begged the Archbishop to issue new instructions which would bring Tetzel under control. Secondly, there was the list of Latin theses on the doctrine and practice of indulgences which Luther intended to use as the basis of a theological discussion of the many vexed questions in this area. The third document sent to Albrecht, Luther's treatise, has not received the attention it deserves from historians and theologians studying the beginning of the Reformation. This is most regrettable, since the treatise depicts in orderly and succinct fashion Luther's understanding of indulgences in 1517 and reveals his conception of their limited role in Christian living. The treatise gives us the theological standpoint on which Luther based his intervention, and it shows in miniature the rich Augustinian spirituality of penance and progress that he had forged in his early works. ...[T]he great tragedy of 1517 was that the barbed [95] theses spread over Germany in a matter of weeks, and this penetrating little treatise fell into dusty oblivion."
Martin Luther's Treatise on Indulgences, Theological Studies 28 (1967), pp. 481-482, 518. http://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=%22forgotten+document+in+luther%27s%22&btnG=#hl=en&q=%22forgotten%20document%20in%20luther%27s%22&um=1&bpcl=35466521&psj=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=pw&psj=1&ei=Y-6JUJ-mL4eo8gShuYDIBQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=e5b835ba41618e18&biw=1232&bih=702 http://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=%22forgotten+document+in+luther%27s%22&btnG=#hl=en&q=%22forgotten+document+in+luther%27s%22&um=1&bpcl=35466521&psj=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbm=bks&source=og&sa=N&tab=wp&psj=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=4fa257fccf8e3a83&biw=1232&bih=702

“I’d rather be ruled by a competent Turk than an incompetent Christian.”

The earliest published source for such a statement yet located is in Pat Robertson — Where He Stands (1988) by Hubert Morken, p. 42, where such a comment is attributed to Luther without citation.
Disputed

“Leave the ass burdened with laws behind in the valley. But your conscience, let it ascend with Isaac into the mountain.”

Source: Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians (1535), Chapter 2, Verse 14

“Do not fight against these harmful spells. For you do not know what God wants with them. You do not know the greater divine plan behind it all.”

As attributed by Kai Lehmann, curator of the exhibition "Luther und die Hexen" ("Luther and the witches"). (2013) in “Interview with Dr. Kai Lehmann, curator of the exhibition "Luther und die Hexen" ("Luther and the witches")“ https://www.luther2017.de/en/wiki/martin-luther-and-the-witches/kai-lehmann-martin-luther-firmly-believed-in-witches/
Disputed

“The human being, corrupted to the root, can neither desire nor perform anything but evil.”

The Making of Martin Luther, By Richard Rex, p66
Attributed

“If we allow them any influence in our conscience, they become the cloak of evil, heresies and blasphemies.”

Marthin Luther, Comment, ad Galat., 310. As cited by Rev. Msgr. Patrick F. O'Hare (1916), The Facts about Luther https://archive.org/details/factsaboutluther00ohar_0/page/118/mode/2up?q=%22cloak+of%22, p. 119. OCLC 4200594.

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