lutheran

Of or pertaining to the theology of Martin Luther (1483–1546) or his followers, or the Lutheran church.

A Lutheran understanding of the Lord’s Supper is not the same as that of other denominations.

[I]f when Luther firſt began to teach new doctrine, the catholiks at that time had not vouchſafed to giue him the hering, but had auoided his prechings & preuy couenticles, ther had not bin now in the worlde, either Lutheran, Swinglian, Calueniſt, Puritan, Anabaptiſt, Trinetarie, Family of loue, Adamite, or the lyke: whereof now there are ſo many thouſands abroad, al ſpringing of that firſt ſecte, and troubling at this day the whole worlde, […]

A member of any of the Christian churches which identify with the theology of Martin Luther.

The split between the Lutherans and the Roman Catholics began with the Edict of Worms in 1521.

[I]f you had bene but ſo conuerſante in Caluine [John Calvin] as your profeſsion requireth, you could not ſo far haue bene ouerſeene in this eaſie diſtinction knowen to Catholike, Lutheran and Zuinglian, although when Caluine wrote thus, perhaps he was more then halfe a Lutheran, and not ſo far gone in Zuinglianiſme as after.