HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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The church raised so much money that they had more power in Europe.
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The creation of the Protestant religion-Lutheran.
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English people moved to Italy to gain access of Indulgences.
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Increased number of witches burned at the stake because they refused to buy indulgences.
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Detailed explanation-1: -An ‘indulgence’ was part of the medieval Christian church, and a significant trigger to the Protestant Reformation .
Detailed explanation-2: -What is an indulgence? An indulgence is the full or partial remission of temporal punishment for sins after the sinner confesses and receives absolution. Under Catholic teaching, every sin must be purified either here on earth or after death in a state called purgatory.
Detailed explanation-3: -He objected not only to the church’s greed but to the very idea of indulgences. He did not believe the Catholic Church had the power to pardon people sins. Rather, Luther thought that salvation could be achieved only through God’s mercy. No one needed to seek or buy salvation through the church.
Detailed explanation-4: -indulgence, a distinctive feature of the penitential system of both the Western medieval and the Roman Catholic Church that granted full or partial remission of the punishment of sin.
Detailed explanation-5: -The return of indulgences began with Pope John Paul II, who authorized bishops to offer them in 2000 as part of the celebration of the church’s third millennium.