Renaissance+and+Reformation+Religion


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This portrait of Martin Luther shows that he is probally teaching other people of what he thinks of indulgences. Martin Luther rebelled against the Roman Catholic Church because the priests were selling indulgences to the people of the church for money so that they may be saved from purgatory. He believed that the only why to get to heaven is through faith. But many priests thought that if you were a good person you would get to heaven. The priests sold these indulgences to get money for the church. People would buy these indulgences to save themselves from purgatory or that other place then heaven and many people believed this would work. Although Martin Luther went through many hardships of rebelling against the Roman Catholic Church, people still believed that Martin was right and the priests of the Roman Catholic Church was doing the wrong thing. ||

This picture depicts Martin Luther posting the Ninety-Five Theses on the door of the village castle in Wittenburg, Germany on October 31, 1517. This short essay says, that no one really knew that his Ninety-Five Theses would cause a protestant religion and reformation. Luther origionally published the Ninety-Five Theses in latin but was soon translated in to all the major European languages and quickly distributed. The Theses consisted of Ninety-Four laws (or Theses) hense the name Ninety-Four Theses. The Ninety-four Theses are what looks and sounds lilke the Laws of the church. ||