WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who led the Protestant reformation by nailing 95 complaints against the Catholic Church to the door of a church in Germany?
A
Malcolm X
B
Henry VIII
C
The Pope
D
Martin Luther
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Martin Luther, professor of moral theology at the University of Wittenberg and town preacher, wrote the Ninety-five Theses against the contemporary practice of the church with respect to indulgences.

Detailed explanation-2: -Martin Luther’s 95 Theses Are 500 Years Old.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ninety-five Theses, propositions for debate concerned with the question of indulgences, written (in Latin) and possibly posted by Martin Luther on the door of the Schlosskirche (Castle Church), Wittenberg, on October 31, 1517. This event came to be considered the beginning of the Protestant Reformation.

Detailed explanation-4: -His “95 Theses, ‘’ which propounded two central beliefs-that the Bible is the central religious authority and that humans may reach salvation only by their faith and not by their deeds-was to spark the Protestant Reformation.

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