Similarities Between Luther And John Calvin

Founding fathers of the Reformation, Martin Luther and John Calvin are the source of two great currents of Protestantism. Beyond what unites them, one and the other are carriers of two very different worldviews. The two men are alike in anything. One is in one piece. It is square, it is thundering, he does not know (nor want) decline. The other has a long face, beard and pointy nose, sideways glance. It has also a will of iron, but he knows to win by negotiating. The first is a short-tempered, which has continued, throughout his life, to fulminate against "papisteries" and "moineries", the second a melancholy. Although they are born at twenty-five years apart, one could say that Luther is still a "former" while Calvin is already a "Modern".
Luther then thirty-four years. The Reformation was born. During his theological studies, Luther is above all passionate about the epistles of St. Paul and the theme of divine salvation. But he also inherited the Augustinian pessimism, it increases to an almost Gnosticism. While in Catholic theology, it is above all the nature of the relationship between man and God that has been altered, corrupted by Adam did misuse his free will in Lutheran theology, c is human nature itself that is irredeemably corrupt. For Luther, or the flesh or the spirit of man are free from the corruption of original sin. The only possible link between man and God, is faith. Sola gratia, sola fide: grace alone, faith alone. Based on the Epistle of Paul to the Romans ("He who is righteous by faith will live"), Luther affirms justification by faith: the criteria of truth are in God and not in man, regardless are his efforts and
But Luther publicly burns the bubble text and breaks with Rome. A year later, the Roman curia begins a long process leading to his excommunication, 3 January 1521. A few months later, in April 1521, Luther, summoned by Charles V, has to explain himself before the Diet Worms. Faced with the emperor, he again refuses to submit. Pioneered Empire bench, he was welcomed to the castle of his friend, the Elector of Saxony, Frederick III the Wise. It was there, in the castle of Wartburg, near Eisenach, he composed his most famous texts, starting with his translation of the Bible into German, completed in 1534 and the first printing machines, due Johann Gutenberg, will greatly help to broadcast. This translation into the language of the chancellery of Saxony, High German (Hochdeutsch), which will gradually supplant the Low German (Niederdeutsch), lays the foundation for a unified national