The Reformation Dbq

The nailing of Luther’s theses marked the beginning of the Protestant Reformation process as it prompted slow but forceful response of the Roman Catholic Church. The church considered Luther’s actions as abuse; the Roman Catholic Church was the main church during the Middle Ages. The response of the Catholic Church sparked protests and created a lot of

Martin Luther was an influential scholar, professor, and monk in the 16th century who transformed the Catholic Church by sparking the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation was written by Luther in 1520. Within the text, Luther challenges the three walls of the Church and instigates an ecclesiastical movement. Luther exhorts and rebukes the authority and ideals of the Roman Catholic Church. Because the walls surrounding the Church are leading to corruption and are hindering transformation, Luther’s argument for completely disbanding all the walls that the Romanists have developed is the best attempt to revolutionize the Church.

Martin Luther posted his theses in an act of making religion based on faith and to have the bible available to all not just the priest. Luther believed religion was based on individual experience and that whoever wanted to practice it should be allowed to. He went against the Church’s beliefs as they stated that the bible has always been in Latin therefore shall remain like that. Luther rejected their ideas and made it his goal to get the bible made available

Luther's ideas for reform in the Church had led to many other faiths and Christians killing each other. All Christians were Catholics and followed the Church. After Luther, posted his 95 Theses, new ideas formed from his defiance. New ideas, such as predestination and celibacy for popes were debated. Soon enough, the Protestants not only split from the church, but split from themselves. Christians turned on each other and mayhem filled the streets along with burnings and murder.

Martin Luther’s original movement towards the reform of the church was a major turning point in history. After the Protestant reformation, political, social, and economical changes affected regions. Some of these effects hindered the progression of the civilizations and sometimes had the potential to reduce the effects of religion. When Martin Luther opposed ideas of the church, he led a movement of protest and violence that questioned the intentions of the church. After Luther studied Christianity, he realized that the church was not as legitimate as it was supposed to be. When he argued against their values, the church had the wrong intentions and believed that Luther was trying to oppose the Church. The same message spread to his supporters

Martin Luther was very angry how the Catholic Church did not teach from the Bible. The church would twist the scripture so they would get more profit from the congregation. An example of this is indulgences. An indulgence is when someone would give money or gifts to the Church to ensure eternal salvation. However, that is contradictory to John 3:16 which states that all that is needed to go to Heaven is belief in Jesus Christ. The Catholics had an inaccurate concept of salvation. Luther encouraged Christians to not follow the teachings of the Catholic Church but to follow Christ instead.

He was the one that was trying to change the practices of the church. He made a list of statements where he expressed his concerns about the church and he took it to the consul. Some of Luther’s ideas was that he didn’t think that confessing sins to priests was a way to get into heaven. He has many doubts about the church. Martin Luther also believed that there was never a good enough way to get spot in heaving even if people were very faithful. Another statement that he had in mind was that the popes and the priests had no worthy power in the holy church. He also believed he could reform the church through education. This is why Luther took his ideas to the consul and they agreed the church needed to change. The consul denied his ideas about faith and allowed people could redeem themselves by doing good works. Luther’s ideas spread around Germany and Europe. Once his ideas spread throughout the countries Luther was banned from the

The Protestant Reformation came during the height of the Renaissance. This movement to reform the Catholic Church was certainly helped by the budding Renaissance idea that the individual holds weight in society, and a man’s words were important. This enabled people to take a stand for something and feel confident in their stance. So when people challenged the Catholic Church for their abuses of power, they could actually speak up on the issue and be heard. While he was certainly not the first person to come up with the idea of challenging the Church to reform, Martin Luther is certainly the most remembered today for his actions and their influence on the Reformation. He was a man who challenged the Church about their abuses of power, and came

The dominance or the power to give orders or decision making of the Roman Catholic Church remained unchallenged for many years. Succeeding in 1517, Martin Luther disrupted the Catholic Church to its very foundations. Luther was not a rebel but determined for God's Word to manifest the truth. Luther's disruption was not trying to overthrow the Catholic Church or even start his corporeal religion. All Luther endeavors to do was to prevent the Church from engaging in some practices that he considered

Religion in the 15th Century has evolved in many ways into the different religions we now practise today. Founder of the Lutheran Church, Martin Luther has played a vital role in the evolution. Martin Luther was a was an Augustinian monk who was later promoted to a professor of Biblical literature at Wittenberg University. Luther’s religious vocation led him into a severe personal crisis: how, he wondered, is it possible to reconcile the demands of God’s law with human inability to live up to the law? Luther’s belief led him to his further accusation against the Catholic church in 1517. The church’s current leader, Pope Leo X, offered indulgences to the society in order to raise money for the building of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Luther

Luther did not tolerate seeing his Church abuse the devout and poor by robbing them of their money merely to feed the papacy’s extravagance. He denounced the Church’s use of indulgences, and also spoke out against the papacy’s corrupt way of being. With his different feelings toward the Church, he inspired other men and was a spokesperson for all those who were victims, physically and monetarily, of the Catholic Church. Luther’s impact on history is even more importantly seen since he chose to attack the church. In his time, people rarely questioned the way things were. Since Luther targeted problems that the people suffered from, such as impoverishment due to indulgence money, and the papacy’s violence and corruption, he received the support of the people. Also, Luther’s attitude and fearlessness when dealing and talking about the church helped him achieve so much more than what any before him had. With his attack on the church, Luther also inspired and “accidentally” began the creation of his own church, which then spread to two churches, and later affecting all other additions to the religious

He began a statement that Christian were only saved through faith and grace of God, instead of rituals. And said the church and Pope made wrong all the time. Moreover, Luther said individual Christians did not need priests to receive the grace of God, and did not need to institution of church to get to heaven. The whole things was not about Christian and the church, was about Christian and God. Of course this roiled Pope Leo.

The change that Luther caused was, in the history of the Christian church, a rapid one. To change something during a person’s life time, was fast compared to 16 centuries of tradition. The complete change that took place was that man could talk to God directly, without an intermediary. Within the Christian church the believers traditionally went to the priest asking for forgiveness. The priest then in turn would talk to God and receive an answer. (World Channel)

Martin Luther was a Monk, Priest and Theologian born in late 1483 in the German town of Eisleben. His father owned a copper mine and had always wished for his son to go into civil service. When Luther was seventeen he arrived at the University of Erfurt. By 1502, Luther had already received his bachelor’s degree and by 1505 he had a Master’s degree. The same year, while returning to University, he was caught in a tremendous thunderstorm. A lightening bolt struck near him and terrified, he cried out, "Help, St. Anne! I'll become a monk!”. Luther lived, and keeping to his promise, he dropped out of university and entered the monastery.

Five-hundred years ago, the political and religious world was turned on its head by a single person. Martin Luther, the accidental revolutionary, was a loyal and dedicated man to the Bible and a friar of the Roman Catholic variety. During his intense study of the Bible, however, Luther felt there was an inconsistency in the papacy’s version of worship (more specifically, repentance and forgiveness though indulgences) and his own interpretations of the Bible. By offering his famous 95 theses as an argument for reform, Luther unwittingly started what is known today at the Protestant Reformation. Because the Reformation would not have occurred and Protestantism would not exist without him, many view the movement and religious branch as Luther’s greatest legacies. However, because of the simple fact that Protestantism has its own branches of Christianity within it, it would be more accurate to say that Luther’s greatest legacy wasn’t the Reformation or Protestantism, but the ideas from which they were derived: reform and protestation. Support for this concept can be found in Luther’s true intentions and in the previous attempts of reform by Luther’s predecessors.