POLS 300 Study Guide - Ninety-Five Theses, Ion, Civil Disobedience
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There is a strict separation between the two worlds. Christianity changed the way people thought about the worlds. If you accept there are two different worlds, there is the idea that everything spiritual is greater than anything physical. He questioned the idea that moral virtue in acts would lead to salvation. Your behavior and the things you did would not help you get to salvation. Luther thought that there was no way people could live up to this. You should still do good works, but change what your virtuous acts were like charity (ex: helping a neighbor). Aristotle had the idea that a priest was the best thing to be because they were needed to reach salvation because they had a direct line to. Luther said that if a priest was a person with a direct line to god, we are all priests. He also said we didn"t need a priest for salvation; we just needed faith (justification by faith)
