What specific issue sparked reformation in Germany?

Answer 1

Martin Luther began the Reformation . This was a movement to correct problems in the church . The Reformation split the church into two groups , Catholics and Protestants .

Answer 2

A King who was all powerful and couldn't stand contradiction! A church which, though it had no great enemy had very few friends and which was in many instances sterile and very rich!

When the King couldn't get the Church to satisfy his dynastic needs he sought about for other ways and found them, within the Church! He also worked out how to bleed the Church for money and used the money to satisfy the critics of his policy and those people who wanted to change it! [The gentry and Nobility!] He laid the Church open to its enemies and though in one way, he took the Church back to its principles, in doing so how-ever, he and the Bishop of Rome between them caused a schism!

Answer 3

The German (Protestant) Reformation was a religious movement which attempted to Reform the Roman Catholic Church. The Reformation began in 1517 when Martin Luther nailed his 99 Theses to the door of the church in Wittenberg, Germany.

While originally just an effort to reform bad doctrines in the church, the Reformation ended up splitting the Western church asunder, resulting in the birth of the Protestant branch of Christianity.

Answer 4

to put it simply, first, martin Luther was a German. second, in Germany, there was a long tradition of dissatisfaction with papal polices and power.

Answer 5

It is considered the center because the Reformation originated in Germany when Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses.

Answer 6

The selling of papal indulgences.