Letter To Martin Luther Influence

October 31, 1517, a bold man made a decision and posted ninety-five theses on the door of a Catholic church in Wittenberg. That man was Martin Luther, he was questioning the church and their recent practice of selling indulgences. Not only did he post his theses on the door, but he also wrote a letter to the Archbishop of Mainz regarding the sales of indulgences. Luther was against these sales of indulgences and other principles that the church was teaching. 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 in hopes that he would “look [on this matter] with the eye of fatherly care, and do away entirely with that treatise.” The courage and bravery that Martin Luther showed in his letter to the Archbishop sparked the protestant reformation and gave the people of Europe a hope to break from the Catholic church. The protestant …show more content…
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