HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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wealthy people to buy positions in the church
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merchants to establish joint-stock companies in Rome
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people to buy pardons for their sins so they would get to heaven faster
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the Catholic Church to buy plots of land at very low prices
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Detailed explanation-1: -Committed to the idea that salvation could be reached through faith and by divine grace only, Luther vigorously objected to the corrupt practice of selling indulgences.
Detailed explanation-2: -Indulgences. The sale of indulgences was a practice where the church acknowledged a donation or other charitable work with a piece of paper (an indulgence), that certified that your soul would enter heaven more quickly by reducing your time in purgatory.
Detailed explanation-3: -The church fragmented under the stress, with many new sects throwing the indulgence system entirely out. In response and while not canceling the underpinnings, the Papacy banned the sale of indulgences in 1567 (but they still existed within the system).