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The Protestant reformation resulted from Martin Luther's disenchantment with the Roman Catholic church. Martin Luther was a Roman Catholic priest in Germany. He was bothered by certain Catholic practices of the day especially the sale of indulgences whereby it appeared to him, people could buy their way to forgiveness. Luther started to write a complaint which ended up with a list of 95 abuses against the Roman church. On October 31, 1517, he nailed a copy of his 95 grievances to the church door in Wittenberg, Germany.
The Roman church asked him to withdrawl his objections and when he wouldn't, he was excommunicated from the church. Germans, anxious to severe its Roman ties, widely accepted his reformation ideas thus propelling him to lead the Reformation movement in Western Europe. |
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