Martin Luther
1483-1546 · Reformation · Household name
Luther was the German reformer who taught justification by grace through faith alone: nothing you do earns God's favour, and faith receives it as a gift. He pushed that further than most readers expect. The human will apart from God cannot choose the good, and everything that happens happens by the necessity of God's will. Scripture alone settles what is true, and every claim to authority has to rest there.
Signature
The position Luther is most identified with in the Profiler:
- Conviction
- leans Certain
- Agency
- Divine Providence
Positions on the 6 axes the sources answer
- The Divine
- leans Describable (21 on a 0–100 scale from Describable to Indescribable)
- Meaning
- leans Inherent (75 on a 0–100 scale from Constructed to Inherent)
- Ground of Being
- leans Transcendence (85 on a 0–100 scale from Immanence to Transcendence)
- Truth
- leans Objective (75 on a 0–100 scale from Subjective to Objective)
- War
- mildly leans Militarism (63 on a 0–100 scale from Pacifism to Militarism)
- Conviction
- leans Certain (88 on a 0–100 scale from Uncertain to Certain)
14 of 20 axes are left blank: the sources do not answer them, or Luther refused the framing. Nothing is imputed; a blank is not a middling score.
Foundational questions
- Theology
- Trinitarian Monotheism
What is your position on the existence and nature of God or gods? - End of Things
- Division of Good and Evil
What is the ultimate end of all things? - Ethics Basis
- Divine Command
What is the ultimate basis of ethics? - Agency
- Divine Providence
What is the nature of human agency and freedom? - Beginning of Things
- Creation ex Nihilo
What is the origin of reality? - Time
- Eschatological
What is the fundamental shape of time? - Authority
- Divine Revelation
What is the legitimate source of authority? - Death
- Judgement
What happens at death? - Human Nature
- Redeemably Corrupted
What is human nature? - Primary Bond
- The Divine
What is your primary bond and loyalty?