How Did Martin Luther Respond To Censorship Of The Catholic Church?

In document, 3 it shows how Luther used the printing press to hurt the Catholic Church by spreading his ideas quickly. Since it allowed Luther to spread his ideas quickly it gave more people access to new ideas that went against the church. Martin Luther used it to print about ⅓ of Germany's books made in 1518 through 1525. Since Luther used the printing press to spread his ideas quickly it allowed him to hurt the Catholic Church’s political power. It hurt the Catholic Church by spreading ideas quickly.

Martin Luther was already questioning his catholic fate and this became worse when the pope allowed John Tetzel to sell indulgences. Luther strongly believed that the Catholic Church was conning the people of Wittenberg into believing they could pay off their sins. Indulgences are a remission of the purgatorial punishment due for sins according to the Roman Church. In acknowledgement to Tetzel’s actions, Luther wrote the “95 Theses”. The 95 Theses was a criticism of indulgences and it had ninety five points attacking the churches practices selling indulgences.

Martin Luther faced many criticisms within the church. It was noticed that the popes were too concerned with worldly affairs rather than focusing on their church responsibilities and duties. Some had children, which were breaking the vows. Some popes in addition, were poorly educated. Without this proper education, they wouldn’t have a reliable source of knowledge and could

How One Man Remade the World with Words, 2002 highlights this phenomenon of the press; “Of course, printing was in its infancy, but Germany at the time was turning out a million books a year, of which a third -300,000- were by Luther” (Doc B). The printing press permitted Martin Luther to share his works widely throughout Europe with all kinds of people. With the printing press, Luther was able to instill doubt in the Church’s authority, which ultimately fueled the beginning of the Protestant Reformation against the Catholic

When the printing press was invented by Jonas Gutenberg, lots of copies of the Bible and different opinion statements were copied easier and faster. This helped people form their own opinions of what should be believed rather than taking the prestits word on it. The issues that caused the Protestant Reformation were how the Roman Catholic Church did things, the amount of power they had, and the invention of the printing press. This changed Europe because it started wars and created a way for people to interpret the Bible differently. It also helped create the Church of England.

After the Reformation, a significant amount of social changes came to light. Nevertheless, this time in history, as shown in Document 3, wouldn’t have reached the success that it did without the printing press. This was a machine that Johannes Gutenberg invented in order to spread information quickly and accurately. Martin Luther’s message was able to be easily spread throughout Europe now. And, with people having the ability to access the Bible on their own, not only was the population of Europe able to study Scripture without a priest, but also, the literacy rate in Europe dramatically increased.

For the reformation to happen the populace had to begin to notice the problems within the church. The printing press is what allowed for the information to be spread at the speed and success it did. Which allowed for the widespread reproduction and distribution of

The Catholic Church had an extremely amount of power that it had become very wealthy and very corrupt. Which leads the revolt of Martin Luther in 1517 against his authorities significant in this time period. Luther’s ideas on the church would spread quickly throughout Europe fueling the flames of Protestantism. Leaders such as Henry VIII took these ideas and used them to break free from the Catholic

Before the Catholic Reformation, there was a Protestant Reformation. One of the leading factors that contributed to the Catholic reformation is Martin Luther. Martin Luther angered the church by writing the ninety-five thesis and posting it on the church door in 1517, he was irritated with the church because they were encouraging people who sinned to purchase indulgences to be forgiven (“Counter-Reformation”, Britannica). Martin believed that when indulgences were purchased they were not holding people accountable for their wrongful actions. The Protestant Reformation led to the rise of Protestant sects that recognized the corruption in the Roman Catholic church and began to convert others.

Late 16th century, there was reform movement that asking for renovation (reform) of Roman Catholic Church, called ‘Reformation’. In earnest, the reformation was started by Martin Luther; also he translated the bible into German so that many people could understand the contents, then produced the bible massively by using Gutenberg’s printing press. And he asserted reformation by saying that Roman Catholic Church was corrupted. One of the reasons was selling indulgence, which people believed that if they bought it then the god would forgive their sins. By selling indulgence, the church earned a lot of money, but people’s painful life didn't changed.

The Reformation took place during the time of the Renaissance. There was a split in the Catholic Church and Protestantism, a new form of Christianity, began. Martin Luther was a monk that began studying the Bible and began wondering about the accuracy of the Catholic Church practices. As he studied the Bible, he began finding many areas where the Catholic Church and the Bible differed. He decided to fully dedicate his life to the Gospel and it's teachings.

“Unless I am convinced by proofs from scriptures or by plain and clear reasons and arguments, I can and will not retract anything I have written, for it is neither safe nor wise to do anything against conscience. Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.” Martin Luther stated these words in 1521 when he was asked whether he still believed what his works taught. The Protestant Reformation was a movement during the 16th century, which aimed to reform some beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church. The reformation was led by a German monk named Martin Luther and was further modified by John Calvin, a French theologian and Henry VIII, the king of England. The ideas bought forward by these individuals started the Protestant Reformation, which triggered wars, prosecutions and the Counter-Reformation.

With the help of the printing press, Martin Luther was able to get his ideas out more quickly. “Much of central Europe and Scandinavia had broken with the Catholic church I a movement that came to be known as the protestant reformation” (McKay et al., 2015, pg. 439). Critics of the church had focused their attacks on immortality, ignorance, and absenteeism of the clergy in the early 16th century. Luther had studied St. Paul’s letters in the New Testament when he realized that “salvation and justification came through faith, and that faith is a giddy from God, not the result of Hickman effort” (McKay et al., 2015, pg. 440). Luther was troubled that people didn’t have to repent after they would buy these indulgences. “Christianity rid itself of certain corrupt

The Reformation was a split in the Catholic Church during the fifteen-hundred. This schism had major economic, political, and religious implications and caused the creation of Protestant Christianity. It began when Martin Luther wrote the Ninety-Five Theses, where he argued for reform of the Catholic Church. One of the issues that bothered Luther the most, was the sale of indulgences. Church officials sold forgiveness for people's’ sins. While this was just the beginning, there were many factors which led to the beginning of the Reformation.

Martin Luther was a Catholic priest posted criticisms on the door of a church. Document B states that he wrote “Those who believe that they can be certain of their salvation because they have indulgence letters will be eternally damned, together with their teacher,” (Document B). This quote shows that the printing press press affected Reformation because all 95 of Luther’s Theses were printed and spread. They were distributed through Germany in weeks and Europe in only a month. Without the printing press Luther’s statements, and therefore his whole movement, would not have popularized. If the printing press never made the spreading of the Theses possible the Protestant Reformation movement never would have taken off.