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Martin Luther

Martin Luther is one of the very few religious leaders that had a real impact on history. Martin Luther was a German theology professor, priest, author, composer, and Augustinian monk. He became a priest in 1507, even though he didn’t endorse all the ideologies and practices of the Roman Catholic Church.

According to listverse.com, “He was particularly disapproving of indulgences, which offered a way for an adherent to reduce the temporal punishment for their sins (in part, in partial indulgences; and in full, in plenary indulgences).”

Martin Luther believed granting indulgence to those that offered a generous donation to the Church along with prayers was a huge disgrace, and he wanted to do something about it.
“In 1517, Luther nailed up his Ninety-five Theses to the door of the Wittenburg Church. The Theses were meant to initiate an academic discussion on the practice of indulgences, but it went way beyond that.”

Pope Leo X urged Martin Luther to abandon his writings in 1520, but he refused to do so. He refused again when the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V asked him the same thing, which resulted in his ex-communication.

The Emperor declared him an outlaw but he still became the figure of Reformation, leading to the development of Lutheranism and other Protestant religion after that.

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