The Ninety-Five Theses

In 16th century Worms, Germany, Martin Luther first published his 95 theses which questioned the authority of the Catholic Church. One of his main points of contention with the Catholic Church was the selling of indulgences; indulgences, the Church promised, would essentially help you buy your way into Heaven by cutting down on your time in Purgatory. Luther contested that this was merely a way for the Church to line its pockets with its people's money and brought his grievance to the public,…

Pope Francis added his voice to the capitalism debate with his Apostolic Exhortation, "Evangelii Gaudium" published in November of 2013. It is based on "the church's primary mission of evangelization in the modern world." In this slamming rebuke against capitalism he describes this as being the "new tyranny," and asks for better politicians who can heal the scars that capitalism has made on society. Capitalism promotes inequality in a way that if left unchecked allows the rich to become…

The word baroque was used in the 1650 through the 1750 all over Western Europe. It was used to describe the style of art that was mostly used all Western Europe. It was a special movement that was based on extravagant living and theatrical display. These features started to be all over Italy and Spain in which it was associated to the catholic reformation. Additionally, it became a big thing all over France in the seventeenth century. Across all over Europe, baroque help changed the idea of…

How the Church changed Indulgences and How Indulgences Changed the Church Indulgences have been the epitome of corruption in the Catholic Church and rightly so. When the Catholic Church created the indulgence system they began do collect money without honesty and began to act truly like a state over a group of Christians. It is abhorrent; however, it was not purposeless and there was a reason the Church needed the ill-obtained money. The idea of indulgences was not created with ill intent, but…

2. Protestant beliefs began to take hold throughout Europe, and they were proving to be both revolutionary and opposed to authority. The Protestant’s new beliefs didn’t just challenge religious hierarchy, but it also caused strife in politics. One instance in which Protestantism defied Catholic doctrine and changed politics was the idea of a presbyterian government. Contrary to the traditional Catholic hierarchy, Calvinists supported a presbyterian system, where a council of elders made sure…

Faisal Ghazwani His 171 The Protestant Reformation was in the 16th century. During the middle Ages, the Roman Catholic Church was an extremely powerful, unifying force of the people. As a result, the pope acted as the intermediary between men and God. As the Church gained more and more power, it began to use corrupt methods to earn money and control the mass. When the Church needs to finance its large building projects for Renaissance artists, it sold indulgences. Indulgences were “tickets”…

Thomas Jefferson (the first US Secretary of State, its second Vice President, and third President) and John Adams (the first US Vice President and its second President) are two of the most influential authors on the Declaration of Independence. But their religious views differ greatly. Jefferson believes Jesus ‘perhaps the greatest of history’s moral teachers’ but he doesn’t subscribe to the religiously fundamental view. Or as Schama puts it, Jefferson doesn’t believe Jesus to be a…

Martin Luther had a positive impact on how people viewed the Catholic Church. Protestant Reformation was a time of change in western society. The Roman Catholic Church would see its authority raised in a way that was unknown and the world would witness the beginning of many religious conflicts and rivalries, some of which live on to this day. The roots of the movement lie in several different ideas that started to spread among the common people of Europe, starting in about 1500. People believed…

In every movement, there is a set and determined leader. This leader is recognized as the head of the organization, and usually makes the decisions and determines what direction the movement is going to go. According the book “Exploring Leadership”, the three basic principles of leadership is “Knowing, Being, and Doing”. Each of these aspects of leadership were exhibited by Martin Luther in a unique way, because he was an unintentional leader of a movement that would shape history. However, even…

What the 95 theses are and why they are important. Martin Luther had a goal and his goal was to reform the church so he made the 95 theses. The 95 theses consist mainly of how the church is manipulative and deceitful. The 95 theses consisted a lot of how the church would put friars out to sell form for their relatives to go to heaven. It also had if you had sinned you would be punished immediately and God wouldn’t forgive you. The theses also had said how the church had power over the people and…