Maarten Luther was een Duitse monnik en theoloog wiens reformistische ideeën de westerse beschaving ingrijpend veranderden. Hij daagde het pauselijk gezag uit door te stellen dat de Bijbel de enige onfeilbare bron van religieuze leer is en dat alle gedoopte christenen een geestelijk priesterschap vormen. Luther postuleerde dat verlossing een gratis geschenk van God is, enkel ontvangen door berouw en geloof in Jezus Christus. Zijn verzet tegen de keizerlijke macht leidde tot zijn excommunicatie en vogelvrijverklaring, maar zijn ideeën kregen brede volkse steun. Zijn vertaling van de Bijbel in de volkstaal had een monumentale impact op de kerk en de Duitse cultuur, en beïnvloedde de taalontwikkeling en de normen voor Bijbelvertaling in heel Europa. Ondanks zijn revolutionaire theologische bijdragen en zijn invloed op de gemeenschapszang, blijft zijn nalatenschap controversieel vanwege kritische uitspraken over Joden, die later door propaganda werden uitgebuit.
"More than a half a century ago, before the two Koreas were separated by war and communist ideology, there was a thriving center for the Christian faith: Pyongyang. Pyongyang was then called the "Jerusalem of the East" and it will be so again. This book is about the story of North Korea: past, present, and future." -- Introduction.
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