Martin Luther's Sale Of Indulgences
October 31, 1517, Martin Luther posted ninety-five theses on the door of a Catholic church in Wittenberg. He also wrote a letter to the Archbishop of Mainz regarding the sales of indulgences. Luther was against these sales of indulgences. Indulgences is the money that can be paid to the church so that a sinner spends less time in purgatory. It is said that people go to purgatory to work off their sins after they have died so they can still go to heaven. Luther’s ninety-five theses protested the sales of indulgences and claimed that the church was teaching false doctrines. Luther wrote to the Archbishop Martin Luther’s courage and bravery on Halloween in 1517 sparked the protestant reformation and ultimately a hope for the people of Europe to finally have a voice and break from the Catholic church. The courage and bravery that Martin Luther showed in his letter to the Archbishop sparked the protestant reformation and gave the peasants of Europe a hope to break from the Catholic church. The protestant reformation was the people of Europe that were protesting the Roman Catholic church and transforming their ideas of Christianity.
Many of Luther’s …show more content…
teachings and beliefs are still taught and believed in churches, specifically, in the United States today.
Luther has helped the development of early modern Europe by being a voice for them, when no one else would. Luther had no clue how much of an impact he was going to have and how many people he would influence.
The reason that Martin Luther was very influential with his actions was because the Gutenberg Press had been invented in 1455 which made it possible for news to spread rapidly without the church being able to intervene.
Before Luther, there was no one person brave enough to step up and speak out against the church. Although, many people agreed something needed to be done and something needed to be changed, nothing happened until Martin Luther came along. Then all of a sudden there was a revolution. News of what he had done travelled quickly. People started to listen to Martin Luther preach and some started preaching what Luther was teaching. Not only that, but also Christians realized that they are able to make their own decisions and be their own priest not having to submit to a central authority here on this
Earth.
In his letter to the Archbishop, Luther states how he long deferred what he is now shameless enough to do; more than likely, Luther talked to other people and he knew he had people backing him and his ideas when he wrote the ninety-five theses, which he probably had help with. To some extent Luther must have known he would cause a debate, but he never knew that he start a revolution.
Many of Luther’s …show more content…
teachings and beliefs are still taught and believed in churches, specifically, in the United States today.
Luther has helped the development of early modern Europe by being a voice for them, when no one else would. Luther had no clue how much of an impact he was going to have and how many people he would influence.
The reason that Martin Luther was very influential with his actions was because the Gutenberg Press had been invented in 1455 which made it possible for news to spread rapidly without the church being able to intervene.
Before Luther, there was no one person brave enough to step up and speak out against the church. Although, many people agreed something needed to be done and something needed to be changed, nothing happened until Martin Luther came along. Then all of a sudden there was a revolution. News of what he had done travelled quickly. People started to listen to Martin Luther preach and some started preaching what Luther was teaching. Not only that, but also Christians realized that they are able to make their own decisions and be their own priest not having to submit to a central authority here on this
Earth.
In his letter to the Archbishop, Luther states how he long deferred what he is now shameless enough to do; more than likely, Luther talked to other people and he knew he had people backing him and his ideas when he wrote the ninety-five theses, which he probably had help with. To some extent Luther must have known he would cause a debate, but he never knew that he start a revolution.