Martin Luther once said, “the Word so greatly weakened the papacy that never a prince or emperor did such damage to it.” (BrainyQuote). Martin Luther said this statement about the Reformation which is a time period where a new branch of christianity was born. This reforming happenened because the Catholic Church was very corrupt and was more concerned about power than teaching about God. Martin Luther, a man who believed that the Catholic Church was corrupt, reformed the church and helped create a new branch of Christianity.
Martin Luther believed that the Catholic Church was corrupt. On October 31 1517 Martin Luther nailed the 95 Theses on the door of the Catholic Church in Wittenburg, Germany. The Theses were aimed at …show more content…
The people that followed Martin Luther wanted to be able to read the Bible in their own language. Since the Bible was only in Latin, Luther had to translate it to German which he did in three months of hard work (Margerison). Translating the Bible into German was one of the steps in becoming completely independent from the Catholic Church. Martin Luther needed to make the Bible available to all people. Martin Luther translated the Bible in 1522 to German from Latin. Doing this he made the Bible available to the common people (McNeal). This greatly benefitted the community by having the Bible in the language most people knew. This lead to a great increase in literacy. After translating the Bible people who had not been previously taught how to read and write were learning how to do it. This helped create a new social class and more books were being written (Margerison). This was great for education and general life. The Bible being translated was a catalyst for a small educational boom. In 1522 Martin Luther translated the New Testament and in 1534 he translated the Old Testament. With the Bible finally easy for people to read Luther encouraged as many people as possible to read it. The effect of everyone reading the Bible was that previously uneducated people were reading and writing more and more books (Wilson). This was very good for the time as it lead to more books being written and more literacy among the lower class. The Bible being translated did more than just benefit