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Martin Luther was a Catholic monk who sought to reform the Catholic Church.
Reformation was a movement for reforming the Catholic Church and it led to the creation of Protestant Churches as well as serious social and political changes.It began with Martin Luther. He was a monk and a professor at Wittenberg, Germany. He was dissatisfied with traditional church theology and came to a conclusion that salvation was possible only by faith alone. He protested against the idea that salvation was something that could be bought and sold for money. He protested against indulgences (selling pardons for sins) and other church abuses in his 95-point theses which he nailed on the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church in 1517.After he had been condemned for heresy, he translated the Bible into German and began to organise a new church. It was called Lutheran Church after him. Lutheranism quickly spread in the German states, France and elsewhere in Europe. Another leader of Reformation was John Calvin. He started his new church in Geneva, Switzerland. Calvinists believed that it was their responsibility to change society morally, introduced strict discipline and created the idea of predestination.
The German was part of the Augustinian order. He wanted to purify the Catholic Church, not destroy it. Martin Luther wanted indulgences stopped, the fake belief that paying money would lessen a persons time in purgatory. He also felt everyone should be allowed to read the bible.
Because he was the first Catholic priest to break away from the Catholic Church, and eventually he translated the Latin Bible into German, hence starting the Lutheran religion, which was the first Protestant religion to break away from the Catholic Church
John Wycliffe was dissident Catholic back in the 14th century, he translated that Bible into English and, in general, wrote against the Catholic Church. Martin Luther was a dissident in the 16th century who left the Catholic Church as a heretic and apostate and translated the Bible into German.
Martin Luther. He was the preacher who posted the note on the Catholic Church telling them they were mixed up and he protested against them about their teachings and some of their bad behavior too. He was a German and he started the Lutheran Church.
Martin Luther, a German monk, protested abuses by the Catholic Church by posting his Ninety-Five Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany in 1517. This event is often considered the catalyst for the Protestant Reformation.
The Roman Emperor went to war against the protestant German princes because they were protestant. They wanted all Catholic Church in Europe to become Catholic once again.
The Roman Emperor went to war against the protestant German princes because they were protestant. They wanted all Catholic Church in Europe to become Catholic once again.
Martin Luther was a Catholic monk who sought to reform the Catholic Church.
Indirectly, as far as I know, the German priests receive their paycheck from their diocese - their Bishop, but the vast bulk of the diocesan income is from a tax levied against all those who declare the Catholic Church is their Church, thus the state takes an automatic deduction, and supports the Catholic Church, the protestant church, and the Jews, all through this income deduction.
Simply because they were protestant, and the Holy Catholic Church wanted all of Europe to become Catholic once again.
Protestantism originated around 1539. The word comes from German and French, protestant.
Martin Luther
John Wycliffe was dissident Catholic back in the 14th century, he translated that Bible into English and, in general, wrote against the Catholic Church. Martin Luther was a dissident in the 16th century who left the Catholic Church as a heretic and apostate and translated The Bible into German.
No. The Protestant Church was founded by Martin Luther, a German Priest in the 14th century after seeing too much corruption in the Medieval Catholic Church. The center of the Protestant was to Protest against the Protestant Church, hence the word "Protest" in Protestant.
Martin Luther