Family Matters
This is the name of Luther's wife.
Who is Katherina von Bora?
Who is Katie?
This was the first Diet called by Emperor Charles V, where Luther was called upon to recant his writings.
What is the Diet of Worms?
This man famously sold the indulgences in Wittenburg that set Luther to writing the Ninety-Five Theses.
Who is Johann Tetzel?
Luther supposedly threw this object at the devil when he appeared to torment him while hiding in the Wartburg castle.
What is his inkwell?
Luther initially wrote in his commentary about this biblical book that it is "an epistle of straw," though in later editions he removed the phrase.
What is James?
This is the number of children that Martin Luther and his wife had.
What is six?
This Diet took place on June 20, 1530 and is the unofficial birthday of the Lutheran church (because of the confessional document presented there).
What is the Diet of Augsburg?
This was the pope under whom Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Catholic church.
Who is Leo X?
What is German?
Luther's first career path (largely influenced by his father) was to be this.
What is a lawyer?
This is the profession of Luther's wife prior to their marriage.
What is a nun?
At the Diet of Worms, this assistant to the Archibishop of Trier served as the representative for Charles V and presented the case against Luther.
Who is Johann Eck?
This child of Luther died as a young teenager, leaving a deep impact on Luther personally and ministerially.
Who is Magdalena?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
While it's factual that he would not recant, it is unlikely that Luther said the German equivalent of "Here I stand" at this assembly.
Luther originally wrote this Christmas hymn to accompany his family devotions.
What is From Heaven Above to Earth I Come?
These are the names of Luther's parents.
Who are Hans and Margarethe (Lindemann) Luther?
Luther was unable to attend this Diet where Philip Melancthon offered a defense of the faith.
What is the Diet of Augsburg?
In Luther's early monastic career and when he served on the faculty at the University of Wittenberg, this man was his father confessor.
Who is Johann von Staupitz?
Luther cried out to this saint to save him and promised to dedicate his life to God during a particularly stormy night.
Who is Saint Anne?
Luther was lecturing on this book when he realized that the righteousness of God was a gift given by God, not a work we do for him.
What is Romans?
These are the names of (at least two of) Luther's children who survived into adulthood.
Who are Hans Luther, Martin Luther Jr, Paul Luther, and Margarethe Luther von Kunheim?
At this Diet in 1529, the Lutheran electors in Germany presented a protestatio (the origin of the term "Protestants") under the motto of Elector John the Constant "The Word of the Lord abides forever."
What is the Diet of Speyer?
Known as the second Martin, he picked up where Luther left off and helped solidify the confessional stance of the Lutheran church, and was one of the main drafters of the Formula of Concord (1577).
Who is Martin Chemnitz?
Rather than nailing the 95 theses to the church door (which may have happened, but wasn't recorded until decades later), rather he simply presented them in this language to his superiors including the Archibishop of Mainz.
What is Latin?
This important document begins with a sentence including: "The entire life of the Christian is to be one of repentance."
What is the Ninety-Five Theses?