ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Luther was certainly aware of indulgences before this time, but it was sales techniques used by Tetzel that brought the matter to his attention. Luther began to question the practice of selling indulgences and in response wrote the Ninety-Five Theses.

Detailed explanation-2: -Event: In 1517, Luther posts his 95 theses on the church door in Wittenberg. Cause: Johann Tetzel was selling indulgences and telling people they could buy their way into heaven. Luther didn’t like that. Effect: He started the reformation.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Ninety-five Theses or Dispute on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences is a list of propositions for an academic disputation written in 1517 by Martin Luther, professor of moral theology at the University of Wittenberg, Germany, at the time controlled by the Electorate of Saxony.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1508, he began teaching theology at the University of Wittenberg.