Martin Luther’s journey in advocating for the separation of church and state is a pivotal chapter in history, marked by personal peril and theological challenges. His struggle during the early 16th ...
Unfortunately, while your history is correct, the why behind the events is most certainly wrong. Luther didn't want to destroy the authority structures, he wanted to bring them back into a rightly ordered flourishing of the Kingdom of God. Little did he seem to know in 1517 just how entrenched and difficult it would be to move the wealthy and the powerful from their earthly desires for more earthly, rather than heavenly, kingdom.