HST 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Purgatory, Ninety-Five Theses, Indulgence
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Clergy is less about spirituality and more about career opportunity. You can increase wealth by taking more than 1 office. You can be a bishop, but also an arch-deacon. Luther didn"t see himself as an innovator or a heretic, but circumstances forced him into open confrontation with the church. Luther nails them to the church in wittenberg. Luther believed the bible was the authority, not the catholic church. Whoops, he gets excommunicated and his works are ordered to be burned. Whoops, luther had already started a revolution. Luther also denied the physical transformation of bread and wine into the actual body and blood. He"s not saying there isn"t a spiritual presence, it"s just not the actual blood and body. That miracle doesn"t happen, but the blessing does bring christ"s presence. Say a german prince converts . other people too. He then declared that his state/province is an official lutheran state.
