Events Leading Up To Martin Luthers Excommunication :: essays research papers fc

      Martin Luther was the founder of the Protestant church. Martin Luther was born on November 10, 1483 in Eisleben in the province of Saxony. His view of Christianity started what is c alled the Protestant Reformation in Ger compositiony. Luther sought come forth to inform people of what he thought were the churches wrongdoings. The resistance of the church called the comeback Catholic Reformation permanently divided western Christianity.     Luther was raised (for the roughly part) in Mansfield. His mother and father were so cruel and abusive his puerility was almost non-existent, which later in life caused him to run away to a monastery and become a monk. He analyse at Eisanbach and Madgeburg and later studied at the university of Erfurt. The reasons Luther unexpectiantly became a monk are conflicting and could be argued upon. Luther himself said, "When I was terror stricken and overwhelmed by the fear of impending death, I make a n involuntary and forced vow". There are many legends explaining this line of reasoning but nobody knows for sure.     The main reason Luther went deeper into his spiritual life was that he felt he would never earn his repurchase. He didnt feel that all the prayer, sacraments, and the good deed doing were enough. Therefore Luther did not think he could fill such a judging god, which meant damnation. Soon after entering the religious life he became an Augustian monk and entered the Augustian monastery at Erfurt on July 17, 1505. In 1512 Luther realise his doctorate in theology and became the professor of biblical literature at Wittenberg University.     Luther took his religious vocation very seriously and spent much of his clock reading the bible, which lead him to question the Roman Catholic Church. He know man was at a disadvantage because our weaknesses force us to be burdened with sin. He said humans could not earn salvation by d oing good deeds or performing holy acts kind of we can earn it with faith in Jesus alone. Believing this, Luther was influenced to indite the ninety-five theses along with him strongly opposing the sale of indulgences which are documents acquittance sinners of punishment after death.     After posting up the ninety-five theses on the castle churches door on October 31st, 1517, Luther sent a copy of the theses and an invoice to the Arch Bishop. The bishop sent it to his councilors at Aschaffenburge. The council was unanimous that Luther was a heretical man and proceedings against him should be taken.