Martin Lindberg's The Late Medieval Church

The Late Medieval Ages are characterized as a series of events occurring concurrently that expressed a crisis of the symbol of security pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church. The Medieval Church had total control over the people who, regardless of social standing, believed in the existence of God, heaven, and hell. According to the document Lindberg provided, the people were instructed from an early age that only through the Roman Catholic Church were they allowed to be received into the light of God and entrance into heaven (The European Reformations Sourcebook, 9). Lindberg’s The European Reformations Sourcebook identifies contemporary accounts or documents, which express the late Medieval Church, the Church’s problems, and the fulfillment of reforms. Martin Luther, with his radical
Martin Luther made radical statements challenging Papal authority, the deliverance of relief of purgatory via a monetary gain by the church, and exposing the corrupt dogma that exemplified the Roman Catholic Church. Luther, after stating the errors of the church, established what he believed was justification by faith. Luther reduced the amount of sacraments to those that were plainly supported by scripture verses the church’s use of sacraments by conjecture, he denounced the sale of paradise, and propounded that the Bible was the true religious authority, whereas, the church gave authority to a fallible man. Furthermore, Luther’s original intent was not to initiate a reformation, but was to allow for academic debate. Luther found questions regarding the church and theological misconduct that would force him to separate from the church in Rome and establish