On October 31, 1517, legend had it that the priest and scholar Martin Luther approached the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and nailed a piece of paper containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation.
In his thesis, Luther condemned the excesses and corruption of the Roman Catholic Church, especially the papal practice of asking for payment—called “indulgences”—for the forgiveness of sins. At the time, a Dominican priest named Johann Tetzel, commissioned by the Archbishop of Mainz and Pope Leo X, was in the midst of a significant fundraising campaign in Germany to finance St. Peter’s Basilica renovation in Rome. Though Prince Frederick III the Wise had banned indulgences in Wittenberg, many church members traveled to purchase them. When they returned, they showed the pardons they had bought to Luther, claiming they no longer had to repent for their sins.
Protected by Prince Frederick, Luther began working on a German translation of the Bible, a task that took ten years to complete. Luther’s frustration with this practice led him to write the 95 Theses, which quickly snapped up, translated from Latin into German, and distributed widely. A copy made its way to Rome, and efforts began to convince Luther to change his tune. However, he refused to keep silent, and in 1521, Pope Leo X formally excommunicated Luther from the Catholic Church. That same year, Luther again refused to recant his writings before the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V of Germany, who issued the famous Edict of Worms, declaring Luther an outlaw and a heretic and permitting anyone to kill him without consequence.
he term “protestant” first appeared in 1529, when Charles V revoked a provision that allowed the ruler of each German state to choose whether they would enforce the Edict of Worms. Many princes and other Lutheran supporters issued a protest, declaring that their allegiance to God trumped their dedication to the emperor. They became known to their opponents as Protestants; gradually, this name came to apply to all who believed the Church should be reformed, even outside Germany. By the time Luther died, of natural causes, in 1546, his revolutionary beliefs had formed the basis for the Protestant Reformation, which would cover the next three centuries to revolutionize Western civilization.
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Here I stand; I can do no other, so help me, God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither proper nor safe. Amen.
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Martin Luther was a German monk who forever changed Christianity when he nailed his ’95 Theses’ to a church door in 1517, sparking the Protestant Reformation.
Luther had come to believe Christians are saved through faith, not through their efforts. This turned him against many of the central teachings of the Catholic Church. On October 31, 1517, he published his ’95 Theses’, attacking papal abuses and the sale of indulgences.
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His writings fractionalized the Catholic Church and sparked the Protestant Reformation. His central teachings, that the Bible is the primary source of religious authority and that salvation is reached through faith and not deeds, shaped the core of Protestantism.
Fundamentally, Luther succeeded because his ideas appealed to people of all classes. In its maturity, his theology was seen as revolutionary in economic, social, political, intellectual, and doctrinal ways.
The Reformation began in 1517 when a German monk, Martin Luther, protested the Catholic Church. This led to a split in the church. His followers became known as Protestants. Many people and governments adopted the new Protestant ideas, while others remained faithful to the Catholic Church.
In the American colonies, the First Great Awakening was a wave of religious enthusiasm among Protestants that swept the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a permanent impact on American Christianity.
