Martin Luther's 95 Thesis Against The Sale Of Indulgences

A Simple practice of the Catholic Church such as “selling of Indulgence” arose a spark to reformation of Germany and towards the peasant’s war. This practice of selling of indulgences was questioned by a german monk “Martin Luther”, the man who believed in “sola fide”, meaning faith alone. Moreover, his ideology towards salvation was the sole authority of scripture, no human authority is required for salvation, all Christians are spiritually equal. Luther’s primary purpose was to reject authority of the papacy and this led towards Protestantism. However, his message was misguided by the peasants; there ideology was based on misperception of the scripture (the peasant’s demanded for a life that followed scripture according to their observes
Indulgences were sold for remission of punishments, due sins and purgatory. However, the indulgences were collected to raise funds for the reconstruction of St.Peter’s basilica in Rome. This act was inducted by Pope Leo X. In 1517 Martin Luther wrote the 95 thesis against the sale of indulgences practice by the Catholic Church. In the 95 thesis Luther stated that pope has no authority or rights to forgive any sins expect of those he imposed by his ow authority, nor the pope can remit any guilt. Luther has stated that purgatory can’t provide a place in heaven, everyone is responsible for there own salvation. Furthermore, all sins and salvation are executed on the earth and only god alone places souls according to there sins not the pope. In other words, Luther rejected the pope’s authority from the church and consider to in faith alone and, consider people directly confess to god. Through the 95 thesis, the peasants also started to reject pope’s authority and had developed significant amount of hope for improvement of their lifestyle and living more of a Christian live according to the word of God. At this point peasant had started to misrepresent Luther’s ideology. Luther rebellion had started to head in different direction, that he didn’t even though of at that
This was the social and political part of life. However, Luther represented his thesis based on the spiritual and secular terms. Nevertheless, the peasants interpreted the scripture and started to related it to their whole life and also the society areas that needed reformation. For instant, the peasants had to pay the highest amount taxes, also had to pay for the water to the landlords, peasants were not allowed to hunt and cut wood directly from the woods. Peasant had to pay the landlords for almost every right they wanted. This arose the development of the peasant’s war, the reformed Message had stared to spread towards the countryside. With the benefit of the printing press the message reach out to the educated clergy. On the other hand, the eighty percent of the peasants population was uneducated, the message was read out in assemblies, market places and painted materials. The peasants started to question all types of authorities and charger towards the nobles and royalty for equal society and political rights. Peasants established their demand with the help of varies rebels. For instant, the twelve articles, violence and Thomas Muntzer letters to