Martin Luther, of Catholic peasant lineage promised to become God’s servant following a natural catastrophe. As a monk, he became disillusioned with the official Church, pope, and doctrine of forgiveness through works. Luther ultimately found forgiveness from the unbearable guilt of sin. He desired to fulfil God’s call, irrespective of the consequences, after God unburdened his soul. Luther didn’t always get everything correct, with horrendous historic consequences. Martin’s father, Hans, initially a hard working peasant miner, became wealthy by smelting copper. Hans requested that Martin initially study law, but he promptly deviated to theology and philosophy. Two tutors, Bartholomaeus Arnoldi von Usingen and Jodocus Trutfetter,
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Tetzel advertised paying indulgences could assure sins forgiven, and go to Heaven bypassing Purgatory, no faith or repentance required, just money. His saying was, ”So wie das Geld im Kasten klingt; die Seele aus dem Fegfeuer springt” which translates to “As soon as the gold in the casket rings; the rescued soul to heaven springs.” The bishop employed Tetzel to oversee two provinces near Saxony, Martin’s province, in Germany. Many citizens/parishioners of Saxony traveled to buy their indulgences. Both the selling of false salvation and the pope refusing to let anyone translate the Bible from Latin for people other than the leaders in the Roman Catholic Church angered Martin …show more content…
He enclosed a copy of Disputation of Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences. This selling of indulgences supposedly liberated people from Purgatory earlier. Martin wrote doctrinal and polemical writings shaming the Archbishop into halting their sale, along with the 95 Theses or topics, for debate in Latin and posted these on the door of the Castle Church at Wittenberg on October 31, 1517. In these theses, Martin attacked the idea that forgiveness of sins could be sold deploring the gluttonous financial exploitation for the pope’s personal gain. His friends reprinted his theses into German in January, 1518 and distributed throughout Germany within two weeks and throughout Europe within two months. Although this doctrinal clash created a major rift in the Catholic Church, this was not Martin’s intention. Following his friends' publication and distribution of his 95 Theses, Martin Luther continued to lecture and write in Wittenberg. In June and July of 1519, he publicly declared that the Bible did not give the pope the exclusive right to interpret Scripture, a direct attack on the pope’s authority. The pope warned Martin with the papal bull (edict) Exsurge Domine June 15, 1520, he risked excommunication unless he recanted forty-one sentences drawn from his writings, including the 95 Theses, within sixty days. On December 10, 1520, Martin publicly burned
Tetzel advertised paying indulgences could assure sins forgiven, and go to Heaven bypassing Purgatory, no faith or repentance required, just money. His saying was, ”So wie das Geld im Kasten klingt; die Seele aus dem Fegfeuer springt” which translates to “As soon as the gold in the casket rings; the rescued soul to heaven springs.” The bishop employed Tetzel to oversee two provinces near Saxony, Martin’s province, in Germany. Many citizens/parishioners of Saxony traveled to buy their indulgences. Both the selling of false salvation and the pope refusing to let anyone translate the Bible from Latin for people other than the leaders in the Roman Catholic Church angered Martin …show more content…
He enclosed a copy of Disputation of Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences. This selling of indulgences supposedly liberated people from Purgatory earlier. Martin wrote doctrinal and polemical writings shaming the Archbishop into halting their sale, along with the 95 Theses or topics, for debate in Latin and posted these on the door of the Castle Church at Wittenberg on October 31, 1517. In these theses, Martin attacked the idea that forgiveness of sins could be sold deploring the gluttonous financial exploitation for the pope’s personal gain. His friends reprinted his theses into German in January, 1518 and distributed throughout Germany within two weeks and throughout Europe within two months. Although this doctrinal clash created a major rift in the Catholic Church, this was not Martin’s intention. Following his friends' publication and distribution of his 95 Theses, Martin Luther continued to lecture and write in Wittenberg. In June and July of 1519, he publicly declared that the Bible did not give the pope the exclusive right to interpret Scripture, a direct attack on the pope’s authority. The pope warned Martin with the papal bull (edict) Exsurge Domine June 15, 1520, he risked excommunication unless he recanted forty-one sentences drawn from his writings, including the 95 Theses, within sixty days. On December 10, 1520, Martin publicly burned