A Man Named Martin | Part 3: The Movement | Episode 5 | Rev. Gregory Seltz | Dr. Paul Maier
This session will cover the Reformation’s impact on art and Luther’s effect on worship and music as well as the denominations it produced.
From the beginning of the Reformation, Martin Luther had a significant impact on church and society through his contributions to sacred music. His intention to spread the gospel among the people through song achieved its manifold purpose. This remains true not only for his own time but for the following centuries up to the present day, all over the world. Other poets, contemporaries and descendants alike, were inspired by Luther’s songs and composed their own hymns.
Here viewers will see how God was at work in the Reformation, in the lives of the men and women that shaped it, and in the societal transformations that resulted. Everything from education and government to marriage and vocation came under the influence of the Reformation. Here was a world in tumultuous flux: widespread cultural and religious tensions, heated theological controversies, bloody conflicts across the map—all marked a continent in turmoil. Beginning with Luther’s nailing of his 95 Theses to the church door at Wittenberg in 1517 to the Peace of Westphalia, a treaty that capped the Thirty Years’ War in 1648, the Reformation launched by Luther produced enormous changes in Europe—changes that eventually swept across the Atlantic, influencing our nation as well.
Director: Jim Likens, Troy Teuscher
Starring: Rev. Dr. Gregory Seltz, Dr. Joel Biermann, Dr. Russell Dawn, Dr. Timothy Dost, Dr. Caleb Karges, Dr. Suan Moble, Dr. John Nunes, Dr. Ken Schurb
