HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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Edict of Worms
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Council of Trent
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Peace of Augsburg
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Act of Supremacy
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Detailed explanation-1: -The emperor presented the final draft of the Edict of Worms on 25 May 1521, declaring Luther an outlaw, banning his literature, and requiring his arrest: “We want him to be apprehended and punished as a notorious heretic.” It also made it a crime for anyone in Germany to give Luther food or shelter.
Detailed explanation-2: -Emperor Charles V passed the Edict of Worms, which banned Luther’s writings and declared him a heretic and an enemy of the state. Although the Edict mandated that Luther should be captured and turned over to the emperor, it was never enforced.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -Martin Luther was summoned to the Diet of Worms in order to recant his criticism of the Catholic Church. Luther was declared an outlaw by the emperor in the Edict of Worms, but was saved from being burned at the stake as a heretic by Frederick III of Saxony, a powerful prince within the Holy Roman Empire.