The_Life_Of_Martin_Luther

The Life Of Martin Luther The Life of Martin Luther Martin Luther lived in a period that had a wide spread desire for reformation of the Christan Church and played the role in the development of Protestantism. Luther was born at Eislebenin Saxony. Since his father was a miner, it was a great distress on him to send Martin to school and then to the University of Erfurt. That is where he earned his master’s degree at the young age of twenty-one(Erikson, 39). Although his father wished him to study law, Martin, after being terribly frightened in a thunderstorm, vowed to become a Friar. He entered the monastery of the Augustinian friars at Erfurt and was ordained a priest(Erikson, 167). He eventually earned a doctorate of theology. He grew disburbed by the growing abouve of indulgences. The cetrificate granted by the people in return for the payment of a fee to the church. It stated that the sould of a dead relative or a friend of the purchaser would have his time in purgatory reduced by many year’s or cancelled together. Also the person had to by an indulgence. This would allow them to receive their earthly penance, since no one knows that God’s ultimate punishment will luther, church, through, people, peasants, known, faith, salvation, married, indulgences, died, christ, catholic, against, out, one, marriage, god’s, believed, always, wittenberg, without, theses, sins, reformation, person, oppression, monastery, martin, made, first, father, young, wife, wanted, very