In the 1500's, a Roman Catholic monk named Martin Luther, a German, objected to some of the abuses of power of the Church of his day. For his questioning that authority, he was labeled a heretic and excommunicated by papal bull. Those that agreed with his reforms were pejoratively labeled "Lutherans." As a reminder of the persecution they suffered, the name was retained, while Luther himself thought it very unfitting that a Church be known by the name of anyone other than Jesus the Christ. The Lutheran Church comes out of the "conservative reformation" which means that only things that were considered unbiblical or unjust were changed to be more in keeping with the early Church. Most of the authentic traditions of the historic Church were preserved such as the liturgy (Mass) and sacramental theology. It is the largest non-Roman Catholic denomination and is the State Church of most of the Scandinavian and some Baltic countries. There are also large numbers of Lutherans in North America and Africa. Many Lutherans do not find the label "protestant" befitting of the denomination as it does not have much in common theologically or in practice with the Reformed or "Evangelical" Churches. Lutherans and Anglicans/Episcopals more closely resemble Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy in worship and theology than they do non-historic or Calvinist denominations. The Cardinal Lutheran doctrine is one of "grace." The Lutheran Church stresses a life of faith and service to others and devotes many resources and services to humanitarian causes throughout the world.
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