Martin Luther with a background as a professor and priest wrote in 1520 “The Freedom of a Christian “.This writing is about the three treaties he put out about how the church should run things. He shows Christians that they don’t need to do anything special like indulgences to please god and get into heaven. He tells Christian that salvation is by faith and grace alone not any good works (Protestant Reformation notes and lecture on Martin Luther). Luther also explains that there should be no indulgences, clerical celibacy, pilgrimage, or masses for the dead Protestant Reformation notes and lecture on Martin Luther). He also states in his writing that there are only two sacraments baptism, and communion and nothing else.( Protestant Reformation
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Loyola founded the Jesuits he was a Spanish priest, and a theologian that believed you have to exercise your own spiritually. Through praying, mental working, and focusing in on God which he states. He tells Christian to study, exercise, and look back on their spirituality. Which will help Christians have deeper relations with god. In these two sentences it explains how the exercises took place.
“For centuries the Exercises were most commonly given as a “long retreat” of about 30 days in solitude and silence. In recent years, there has been a renewed emphasis on the Spiritual Exercises as a program for laypeople.”(“The Spiritual Exercises” http://www.ignatianspirituality.com/ignatian-prayer/the-spiritual-exercises)
According to the passage above these spiritual exercises weren’t just a one day thing the exercising was spread throughout a thirty day period. In the writing “The Freedoms of a Christian” it answers what the freedoms of Christians are. It also answers what limitations Christians have if they want to have salvation. . The three main points to this passage which are the three treaties he made. One is that there should be no indulgences, clerical celibacy, pilgrimage, masses for the dead, and etc. Another is that there is only two sacraments baptism and communion. The last of the three is salvation is by faith and grace alone and not by good
Loyola founded the Jesuits he was a Spanish priest, and a theologian that believed you have to exercise your own spiritually. Through praying, mental working, and focusing in on God which he states. He tells Christian to study, exercise, and look back on their spirituality. Which will help Christians have deeper relations with god. In these two sentences it explains how the exercises took place.
“For centuries the Exercises were most commonly given as a “long retreat” of about 30 days in solitude and silence. In recent years, there has been a renewed emphasis on the Spiritual Exercises as a program for laypeople.”(“The Spiritual Exercises” http://www.ignatianspirituality.com/ignatian-prayer/the-spiritual-exercises)
According to the passage above these spiritual exercises weren’t just a one day thing the exercising was spread throughout a thirty day period. In the writing “The Freedoms of a Christian” it answers what the freedoms of Christians are. It also answers what limitations Christians have if they want to have salvation. . The three main points to this passage which are the three treaties he made. One is that there should be no indulgences, clerical celibacy, pilgrimage, masses for the dead, and etc. Another is that there is only two sacraments baptism and communion. The last of the three is salvation is by faith and grace alone and not by good