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 land of Saxony. His view of Christianity started what is called the Protestant Reformation in Ger small-army. Luther sought out to state people of what he thought were the churches wrongdoings. The resistance of the church called the Counter Catholic Reformation permanently divided western Christianity.     Luther was raised (for the most part) in Mansfield. His mother and father were so cruel and abusive his childhood was nigh non-existent, which later in livelihood caused him to run away to a monastery and father a monk. He studied 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 disquietude stricken and overwhelmed by the fear of impending death, I made an unwill ed and forced vow". There are many legends explaining this statement notwithstanding nobody knows for sure.     The main reason Luther went deeper into his religious life was that he felt up he would never earn his salvation. He didnt feel that all the prayer, sacraments, and the intelligent deed doing were enough. Therefore Luther did not think he could satisfy 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 earned his doctors degree in theology and became the professor of biblical literature at Wittenberg University.     Luther took his religious vocation very seriously and spent much of his time schooling the bible, which lead him to question the Roman Catholic Church. He realized man was at a disadvantage because our weaknesses force us to be heavy-laden with sin. He said humans could not ear n salvation by doing good deeds or performing holy acts instead we mickle earn it with faith in Jesus alone. Believing this, Luther was influenced to write the ninety-five theses along with him strongly opposing the sale of indulgences which are documents freeing sinners of punishment after death.     After posting up the ninety-five theses on the go churches door on October 31st, 1517, Luther sent a copy of the theses and an explanation to the arch(a) Bishop. The bishop sent it to his councilors at Aschaffenburge. The council was unanimous that Luther was a heretical man and transactions against him should be taken.