Martin Luther
... huge project and needed a lot of money to be carried out (R.C Sproul, Pg 160). The money was gathered by priest cardinals and bishops and the pope, himself who encouraged people to pay for penitence for themselves as well as love ones who had already died. These penitence were sometimes purchased by way of a private mass, which cost a lot money and or their families land. That way the church could either rent the land back to the family or sell it off as needed. In 1517 he finally makes his appeal to his bishops against the indulgence sales. He gets in serious trouble with the church. 1517, (Horner, Albert) was a year of a lot of changes in this part of the world. On All Saints’ Day he wrote 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg that ignite the Protestant Reformation. Later they were examined and the Pope, in Rome, asks him to come to Rome to meet with him. Back in those days, when you wrote something against the standards of church and society you were known as a heretic. They did not have the freedom to say or write a lot of things like we are accustom to do today. In 1520, (Haile Pg. 5) there were three great reform tracts that were: Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, The Babylonian Captivity of the Church, and Freedom of the Christian. These would booklets that were published that were against what Martin Luther felt as false works or practices of worship from other churches. This period has come to be known as the Reformation Period of church history that is roughly about the 1520‘s and the 1530‘s. After months of writing Martin Luther, on All Saints Day, in 1517, nailed 95 theses on the castle church of Wittenberg. The entire church system within the Renaissance period was totally corrupt. The church had a lot of political power that they were abusing and the poor people during this time were the ones suffering the most. They had to contribute to the church and try to earn a living off of the land that the church owned. And the poor people or the peasants, as they were called started to rebel against the church. Martin Luther had extreme speech patterns. He wrote in a vulgar fashion, but had some spice to it. When haters (opponents) try to speak again he would reply, “The dogs are beginning to bark.” He said to Erasmus, “Your book struck me as so worthless and poor that my heart went out to you for having defiled your lovely, brilliant flow of language with such vile stuff. I thought it outrageous to convey material of so low quality in the trappings of such rare eloquence; it is like using gold or silver dishes to carry garden rubbish or dung.” When asked complicated questions he would simply reply “May I have 24 hours to think it over?” One funny remark that caught my attention was he didn’t call spades a spade but a manure shovel (Suzann Nelson) Luther did in fact, like most hum...