Stimuli et clavi i. e. theses adversus huius temporis errores et abusus: Spieße und Nägel d. i. Streitsätze wider die Irrnisse und Wirrnisse unserer Zeit (Goads and Nails, that is, Theses Against Errors and Abuses of This Time).
95 theses published by North German Lutheran pastor Heinrich Hansen at Reformation jubilee 1917. Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the teachings of the sixteenth-century German reformer Martin Luther Heinrich Hansen (13 October 1861 &ndash 17 April 1940 was a German Lutheran theologian and the father of the Lutheran High Church movement in Germany The Protestant Reformation was a reform movement in Europe that began in 1517 though its roots lie further back in time Theses were published both in Latin and German and the number of theses refers to the 95 Theses of Martin Luther. The Ninety-Five Theses on the Power of Indulgences, commonly known as The Ninety-Five Theses, were written by Martin Luther in 1517 Martin Luther (November 10 1483 February 18 1546 was a German Monk, theologian, university professor Father of Protestantism, and church reformer Title of Hansen's theses refer to Book of Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament:
Ecclesiastes 12:11, The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails — given by one Shepherd. Ecclesiastes (often abbreviated Ecc) (קֹהֶלֶת Kohelet, variously transliterated as Qoheleth, Göhalath, Koheles, Koheleth In Western Christianity, the Old Testament refers to the books that form the first of the two-part Christian Biblical canon.
Stimuli et Clavi were beginning for so called Evangelical Catholic or High Church Lutheran movement in Germany. The term Evangelical Catholic is used by Christian believers who consider themselves both " Catholic " and " evangelical. High Church Lutheranism is the European name for the Lutheran movement that emphasises worship practices and doctrines that are similar to those found within both Roman They inspired the foundation of Hochkirchliche Vereinigung Augsburgischen Bekenntnisses following year 1918. Hochkirchliche Vereinigung Augsburgischen Bekenntnisses ( High Church Union of the Augsburg Confession) is a Lutheran High Church organisation in Germany