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In 1517, an Augustinian Catholic priest and professor of theology, Martin Luther (1483-1546), unhappy with the abuses of the Roman Catholic Church, posted his ninety-five theses on the All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg, Germany. The subject of indulgences of the Church was his main dispute. The Church was raising money by promising salvation to the givers. This started the Protestant Reformation that was to lead to his excommunication and produce a major split in Christianity and the rest of the…

This Massacre spread to most parts of France and eventually ended up with the killings of thousands of people. The number of victims of the Massacre differs but the modern estimation stands at between five and thirty thousand people. Mack P Holt, a Professor of History at Emory University claims that the estimates of the numbers killed in the Massacre have "varied from two thousand by a Roman Catholic Apologist to seventy thousand by the contemporary…

Martin Luther is a person commonly known for being the key component of the Reformation. His Ninety-Five Theses Concerning Indulgences, which he posted on the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany in 1517, grabbed many people’s attention for listing the issues of the corrupt clergy and is commonly known for marking the start the Reformation. However, according to the Sixteenth Century Dutch scholar Erasmus, “The egg was laid. Luther had but to incubate and hatch it.” There was an abundance of…

What was Martin Luther’s occupation/vocation? Luther was a scholar turned monk. What did Martin Luther title his list of grievances with the Catholic Church? Briefly describe a few of these grievances. The list of grievances was titled the Ninety-Five Theses. The list was comprised of problems which Luther had with the Church. The main issues included: The sale of indulgence, the power of the Pope, the Priest’s inability to marry, and his belief the humans were not saved by their actions, but…

peace with God was through having heartful faith in God. Thus this idea contradicted some of the corrupt behaviors that the church was practicing such as indulgences. Consequently, Martin Luther’s attempt to reform Catholicism through his work Ninety-Five Theses allowed people to have a new kind of freedom as Martin Luther’s work demonstrated that both religious and political authority were imperfect. In the end, allowing the Scientific Reformation era to spark as people started to think…

He wrote all his disputes in the Ninety-Five Theses, which included the selling of indulgences and that the people didn’t need a priest to interpret the Bible in their own way. Luther wanted the people to have the opportunity to interpret the Bible by themselves, instead of needing a “priest”…

physics provoked but the instructor well...* The instructor, a physics professor and father of one of my friends, was no Professor Moriarty in tweed. Emaciated by his vegetarian diet he had the unkempt mop of Russell Brand and a scruff shadow that made five o’clock wet its knickers.…

Cameron Peters Nicholas McEntire HIS-112-350 21 November 2017 Consequences of the Catholic Counter-Reformation The Catholic Counter-Reformation can be looked at in two different ways. The first way is as a response, or “Counter-Reformation,” to the Protestant Reformation that was happening around the same time in the early sixteenth century (Britannica n.p.). The other way is of a reformation that sprung up from the Catholic Church itself as a result of criticism of the Renaissance popes…

Johann Gutenberg was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer and publisher. He was the one who invented the printing press. He was born in the German city of Mainz. He was born in around 1398. He’s the youngest son of the upper-class merchant Friele Gensfleisch. His father was a goldsmith for the Bishop at Mainz, but most likely, he was involved in the cloth trade. Johann introduced the printing to Europe. His introduction of movable type printing to Europe started the “printing revolution” ,…

Title Throughout the course we have read several books related to war from various authors. These authors wrote their works in a multitude of ways. The time periods at which these authors wrote differed immensely. One author wrote at the time of the civil war, others during the Vietnam War, and another during World War II. The style at which they wrote was anything but similar. The variance of literature was as great as their time difference. Some expressed their writings in a way of short…