Martin Luther OSA was a German priest, theologian, author, hymn writer, professor, and Augustinian friar. He was the seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation, and his theological beliefs form the basis of Lutheranism. Luther was ordained to the priesthood in 1507. Luther was both evolutionary and conservative; he was deeply a deeply conservative person with strong authoritarian tendencies. He wanted, in the end, to reinstate the power of god over freedom of man. Luther was also very revolutionary, Luther helped democratize and he also accelerated the way we debate ideas. His religious teachings helped advance democracy, doing that shifting away the locus of authority away from the church to the individual believer. One thing that makes