Luther's Influence On Hierarchies

Every society, past and present, has unspoken things that keep it running smoothly. Formerly among these are nested hierarchies. These hierarchies, for lack of a better phrase, were a sort of world view; they were ways of thinking that are held by the majority of the society. They dictated the order of things and how things are to be done. This was particularly prevalent in medieval Europe; the hierarchies were almost like seams to the fabric of that society as a whole. Which poses a question: what happens when these seams start to change and fall apart? Well, that’s exactly what happened. They all became obsolete thanks to the work of forward thinkers, particularly the religious, cosmic, and scientific hierarchies. The religious hierarchy
It led him to enter the Leipzig Dispute, originally a debate between Johann Eck, who defended the Catholic church and doctrine, and Andreas Karlstadt, a Christian cleric. It did not end particularly well for Luther; his ideas were thought to be heretical. A similar situation occurred in 1518, in Augsburg, when he had an interview with Cardinal Cajetan; it turned into a full blown theological debate. It seems that Luther was quite argumentative and steadfast in his teachings. They even garnered a papal response from the pope at that time, Exsurge Domine, which declared Luther’s teaching heretical on June 15, 1519. Luther burned it and was excommunicated in January of 1521. Later, he was officially declared a heretic, but his actions catalyzed the formation of the Lutheran church, which practiced the “priesthood of all believers,” meaning that there was no formal separation between the common people and
As always, according to the thought pattern of the time, God, or other supernatural forces, were the cause of pretty much everything. That concept puts God at the top of the ‘hierarchy.’ However, the scientific hierarchy is more like a tree and its branches. The three main branches were the Natural, or things that were easy to explain, Supernatural, usually thought of to be divine miracles—otherwise known as “examples of God’s might”— celestial events like comets, and monsters, and Preternatural, things that were not easily explain, though not always concerning, like