What was martin Luther concerns in the 95 theses?

Answer 1

the main reason Martin Luther wrote his 95 theses was because of the selling of indulgances

Answer 2

Being a monk, Luther was exposed daily to the flaws of the Catholic Church. Some of thefaults that alarmed him most were: indulgences, which Tetzel was selling, the fact that only the Popes could read The Bible, and the entire thought of purgatory. Luther knew that purgatory was only some made up place that the church could make money off of by people buying their way out. Indulgences, when John Tetzel came to Wittenberg selling ways out of purgatory, he was enraged. Luther, having such strong opinions on this nonsense, wrote a list of 95 errors of the corrupted Catholic Church. He chose October 31, All Saints Eve to post them. He chose this night so that many people would be there to read his important bulletin.

Answer 3

• What did the 95 Theses protest about?

Books have been written on what the 95 theses of Martin Luther were about, but the short answer is that Luther was a devout Catholic who felt that there were a number of practices in the church of his day that did not seem right to him - at least 95 of them. After much thought, he made a list of statements about them, 'theses', and posted them on the door of a church hoping to encourage discussion and perhaps to come up with some better ideas. But the posting of this list caused a major cultural change: people who up to that time had blindly followed church practices began to question them. After Martin Luther posted his 95 theses, it became more common for people ask questions not only about church practices, but also about doctrine and even about the foundational beliefs of the Catholic religion itself. Though the resulting Reformation (re-formation) of the church was not Martin Luther's original intention, it became his legacy.

• Why did the 95 theses have such a huge impact?

It is helpful to understand that there was one church practice in particular that bothered Martin Luther. That practice was the Catholic Church's selling of 'indulgences' to the wealthy. These indulgences were not small fines anyone could pay to the church for having done something wrong. They were very large fees the wealthy paid to the Church in advance for the right to do something that was otherwise considered religiously illegal. At one point these indulgence payments grew to become a significant source of income for the church.

Even though the sale of indulgences as 'sin permits for rich people' was the subject of only one of Luther's "95 Theses", it was also the one church practice that poor common people could easily relate to as being neither right or fair. When Luther posted the list that openly questioned the practice, they common people too began to more openly question this and the other 94 theses as well. Questions turned into discussions, discussions into arguments, arguments into protests, and protests into a movement - the Reformation - that changed the organizational structure of the church forever.

Still, to this day it seems that most people do tend to think of the 95 Theses as a protest. Yet originally they were not. Martin Luther posted them on the door of the church as theses, ideas to be considered, not as a protest. He was looking for answers, not the 're-formation' of the church that ended up being the result.

Answer 4

Luther's ninety-five theses were created during the reformation of the Church in the late 1500s. He angrily prepared a list of 95 arguments against indulgences and sent them to his bishop. Some accounts say that Luther also nailed them to the door of Wittenberg Cathedral for everyone to read. The list became known as the Ninety-Five Theses. Thousands of copies were printed and read all across the German kingdoms.

Answer 5

The 95 theses are ideas that questioned the authority of the Catholic church in the 16th century, particularly the indulgences paid to the clergy. They were written by a German monk, Martin Luther.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

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