Lutheran

Lutheranism began in 1517 when people began to move away from the Catholic Church because of the amount of corruption, abuses, and the selling of indulgences that went on. Lutheranism was founded so that people could use their faith alone to achieve salvation rather than having to follow all of the doctrines of the Church in order to achieve salvation. Martin Luther is credited to being the founder, hence where the name
 * __Lutheranism- History__ **

Lutheranism comes from.
 * Johan Tetzel was one of the key influences that Luther discriminated against, along with Pope Leo X and Pope Julius


 * Johan Tetzel sold indulgences any way he could be appealing to assembly of Church goers. He commonly used the phrase "A penny in the box, a soul out of purgatory."


 * Pope Leo X and Pope Julius encouraged the selling of indulgences and lived lavish lives while in the Church. They justified their actions saying that the money would go towards building new church affiliated buildings, which is party try considering a partial amount when to building; most of it went to the Pope's personal bank


 * 1517 - Martin Luther, a German monk, nailed his famous 95 Theses to a church door in Wittenberg, Germany


 * In the 17th century, Lutheranism spread to parts of the United States


 * January 1, 1988 - Three churches in the USA joined to make the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America or ELCA


 * August 1997 - ECLA declared itself offically part of the religions in the USA and said any conflicts that were related to salvation had been solved· In addition to all of these achievements, Lutheranism was popular amongst the royals and people in political power during its first few years of following

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__Quantitative Information__ In the world today there are 66 million people who follow Lutheranism as their main faith. If one were to divide up the numbers, one would find that:


 * 36 million live in Europe


 * 13 million love in Africa


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">8.4 million live in North America


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">7.3 million live in Asia


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">1.1 million live in Latin America


 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">81% of people in Finland are belong to the Lutheran faith

**<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: 15pt;">__Lutheran beliefs__ ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">Lutheran beliefs <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">· They believe in the Trinity and Jesus as the Savior <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">· They believe in baptism and that when your baptized, it will give you everlasting life <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">· They believe in the Nicene Creed <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">· They ordain women into the ministry <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">· They follow the Book of Concord <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">· The Book of Concord <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">· The Book of Concord provides several documents that the Lutherans follow <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">· This includes the Augsburg Confession <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">· This is the first time the Lutherans presented their faith to Charles V <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.14in;">· This was important because it stopped the controversy and fight between Lutherans and

**<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: 15pt;">__Lutheran versus Christianity__ ** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 115%;">· They both believe in the Trinity and Jesus Christ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 115%;">· They both believe in Baptism <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 115%;">· The Lutherans focus on the Book of Concord and the Christians practice the Bible <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 115%;">· Women are ordained in Lutheranism <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 115%;">· They both believe that Jesus suffered and died for us



<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">ReligionFacts. http://www.religionfacts.com/christianity/denominations/lutheranism.htm ( October 2010)
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