At first they threatened Luther with Excommunication. Luther didn't recant so his people threw the Popes documents into a bonn fire. Germany eventually went to war.
The Church reacted to Luther's criticism, as it has always done to any criticism of Faith or Morals, by proclaiming the Truth. Then, through dialogue, the Church attempts to show the person the falsehood of their belief and why they are incorrect in their conclusions.
He was given the opportunity to recant his heresies. When he refused, he was excommunicated.
the pope banned him form the church but then later tried to get him back so people wouldn't leave the church.
The German peasants in the countryside flocked to the Luther's camp. They also backed Luther's criticism of the authority of the Roman Church.
The protestant church started by Martin Luther was the Lutheran Church.
Catholics refer to Luther's "reformation" as the protestant revolt. The Catholic Church reiterated and defined its teaching at the Council of Trent. The Counter-Reformation was led by scholars, and the Catholic Reform by Catholics.
Luther Place Memorial Church was created in 1873.
.Catholic AnswerThe Catholic Church was never "threatened" by Martin Luther.
His followers. I have been raised Lutheran and I have learned that Martin Luther's original intentions were not at all to break with the Catholic church, he in fact encouraged his followers not to break from the church, he just wanted to change the corruptness of it and focus more on the Bible. The way I understand it to be is that Martin Luther's followers (not Martin Luther, it was after his death) broke from the Catholic church because they recognized the strength of the church itself and were insulted by the fact that the Catholic church excommunicated Luther.
Martin Luther reformed the church in Germany
.Catholic AnswerThe Church was, and is, the Catholic Church.
.Catholic AnswerThere was never a "war" with Martin Luther and the Church, the question is not valid.