Indulgences
Albrecht of Brandenburg
The young Archbishop of Mainz whose debt for his offices was paid with the St. Peter’s indulgence, and to whom Luther sent the Ninety-Five Theses.
All Souls’ Day
All Souls' Day (November 2): its origin at Cluny, Rome's teaching on purgatory, suffrages, and indulgences for the dead, the Reformation's rejection of it, and a biblical response.
All Souls’ Day
All Souls' Day (November 2): its origin at Cluny, Rome's teaching on purgatory, suffrages, and indulgences for the dead, the Reformation's rejection of it, and a biblical response.
Catholic Opponents of the Reformation
The major Roman Catholic opponents of the Protestant Reformation: popes, princes, bishops, inquisitors, and theologians, with a short biographical sketch of each.
Hieronymus Schulz
Luther’s own bishop, who first counseled silence and then vowed to see the monk in the fire.
Indulgences
The Roman doctrine of indulgences and the controversy that led Luther to post the Ninety-Five Theses in 1517.
Indulgences
The Roman doctrine of indulgences and the controversy that led Luther to post the Ninety-Five Theses in 1517.
Johann Tetzel
The Dominican indulgence preacher whose sales just beyond Wittenberg’s border provoked Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses.
NINETY-FIVE THESES
The Ninety-Five Theses of Martin Luther, posted at Wittenberg in 1517 to debate indulgences.
The First Lateran Council
The First Lateran Council of 1123 under Callistus II: the Concordat of Worms confirmed, clerical marriage forbidden, and the crusading indulgence renewed.
The First Lateran Council
The First Lateran Council of 1123 under Callistus II: the Concordat of Worms confirmed, clerical marriage forbidden, and the crusading indulgence renewed.
The Sacrament of Penance
The sacrament of penance: the second plank after shipwreck, its rise from public discipline to private confession, contrition and attrition, confession and absolution, satisfaction and indulgences, and the answer of the Reformers and Scripture.
The Sacrament of Penance
The sacrament of penance: the second plank after shipwreck, its rise from public discipline to private confession, contrition and attrition, confession and absolution, satisfaction and indulgences, and the answer of the Reformers and Scripture.
Why?
Why the Reformation happened: the religious, intellectual, political, social, and economic causes.
