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Podcast: Restitutio
Episode: 117 Luther and Calvin (Five Hundred 2)
Description: In this episode, you’ll get a brief introduction to the contributions of Martin Luther and John Calvin to the initiation and spread of the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century, including these events:
1505 Martin Luther becomes a monk
1517 Martin Luther nails 95 Theses on Wittenberg church door
1524-5 Peasants War
1536 John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion
1541 John Calvin returns to Geneva as leader
This is lecture 2 of a history of Christianity class called Five Hundred: From Martin Luther to Joel Osteen.
All the notes are available here as a pdf.
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