Martn_Luther

Martn Luther What were Martin Luthers Criticisms of the Roman Catholic Church' Discuss the Impact these Criticisms had on Europe in the 16th Century. Martin Luther (1483-1546) was a German theologian who dared to challenge the Roman Catholic Church and consequently had a massive impact on Europe in the 16th Century. He publically criticised the behaviour of the popes, the churches use of fake relics such as Indulgences, and the entire sacramental system and theology of the Roman Catholic Church. These criticisms not only impacted on religion, but also on politics, economics, education and language, making him not only a leader and midwife of a new religious movement known as protestantism, but also since the 1980’s, recognised as a revolutionary socialist hero. Martin Luther went into the religious life due to the fact that he felt he would never earn his eternal salvation. Because Luther took his religious vocation very seriously, he was led into a crises in dealing with his religion. He wondered “is it possible to reconcile the demands of Gods law without human ability to live up to the law'” In other words, he had realised that man is imperfect and unable to live up to the standards of God dictated by luther, martin, church, catholic, indulgences, roman, new, people, life, german, thesis, never, religious, religion, europe, criticisms, being, salvation, reformation, gods, god, fact, ‘the, years, way, two, translated, theory, theology, tetzel, testament, system, society, sins, sacraments, sacramental