History of Lutheranism

History & overview · every faith gets one

Law and gospel, rightly divided.

The first Protestant church: Luther's own line — justification by faith as the article on which the church stands or falls, and Christ truly present in the sacrament.

The founding

Its founding is bound to Martin Luther — 1517 CE.

What it holds

The divine. One God in three persons.

Death and after. Resurrection and judgment.

The line

descent is public here — where it came from, what left it

Judaism — c. 1000 BCE Christianity — 30 CE Catholicism Protestantism — 1517 CE Lutheranism — 1517 CE

Keep going

Back to the overview — the living page: elements, discussion, the web The Belief room — the claims themselves, with sources and context Branch Lutheranism — inherit everything, change what you must