How Did Martin Luther Give Rise To Power

Martin Luther became one of the most influential figures in Christian history when he began the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century. He called into question some of the basic tenets of Roman Catholicism, and his followers soon split from the Roman Catholic Church to begin the Protestant tradition.
In the summer of 1505, twenty-two year old Luther applied to join the Augustinian order of monks, founded by Saint Augustine in the fifth century. Luther was accepted into the monastery where he lived in an unheated chamber and had to follow strict rules regarding prayer, fasting, and confession. He was obsessed with feelings of sinfulness and struggled to find his personal faith. He struggled deeply with anxiety, which led him to make confessions
Luther made the climb on his knees and said a prayer on each step, hoping thereby to shorten the time
In his 95 Theses, Luther detailed these abuses and refused to be silenced. Violent controversy followed as he continued to attack the corruption of the Papacy and supported the translation of the Bible into the common language so that people could read it for themselves, however; the issue that Luther was enraged about was the sale of indulgences. They were granted on papal authority and sold by licensed agents. While the Church never maintained that divine forgiveness could be obtained through an indulgence, dishonest agents such as Tetzel employed such claims with great success. Luther, disturbed that ordinary people were having their salvation endangered by these false claims, authored ninety-five theses attacking indulgences and fastened them to the door of All Saints Church in Wittenberg on October 31, 1517. Contrary to Luther’s wishes, the theses were widely circulated, striking a responsive chord among the Germans. What Luther had intended as a local, scholarly debate was becoming a public controversy. The Archbishop of Mainz, who was profiting directly from the sale of indulgences, forwarded copies of the ninety-five theses to Rome, requesting that Luther be disciplined. At this point, the scope of the controversy suddenly widened. A colleague of Luther at Wittenberg,