Question

WILL GIVE MEDAL!!!!
In his published 95 Theses, Martin Luther protested against
A) the selling of indulgences within the Catholic church
B) the belief in predestination
C) the worshipping of statues of saints
D) the Catholic churchs focus on faith as the sole means of salvation

Answer 1

Books have been written on what the 95 theses of Martin Luther were about, but the short answer is that Luther was a devout Catholic who felt that there were a number of practices in the church of his day that did not seem right to him - at least 95 of them. After much thought, he made a list of statements about them, 'theses', and posted them on the door of a church hoping to encourage discussion and perhaps to come up with some better ideas. But the posting of this list caused a major cultural change: people who up to that time had blindly followed church practices began to question them. After Martin Luther posted his 95 theses, it became more common for people ask questions not only about church practices, but also about doctrine and even about the foundational beliefs of the Catholic religion itself. Though the resulting Reformation (re-formation) of the church was not Martin Luther's original intention, it became his legacy.