Chapter 10 & 11 1
MARTIN LUTHER
Reasons:
oThe righteousness that God demands results in given faith & trust in Jesus Christ satisfying God
rather than charitable acts & religious ceremonies
A believer who is bound to Christ by faith possesses God’s righteousness
oLuther says it is unbiblical to treat charitable acts & religious ceremonies as well as the selling of
indulgences (e.g. small cash payments aka almsgiving) as a pardon to one’s salvation to save
oneself from suffering in purgatory because only God could bestow that
oLuther believed that indulgences went beyond traditional practice & seemed to make salvation
something that could be bought & sold
In 1520, Luther signed his new direction with 3 famous pamphlets
o1. Address to the Christian Nobility of the German: advised German princes to force political &
economic reforms on the Roman church
o2. Babylonian Captivity of the Church: said that only 2 of the 7 sacraments were actually
adhered to being biblical, baptism & the Eucharist… made authority of the Scripture, clergy &
secular princes over the Pope
o**3. Freedom of a Christian summarized new teaching of salvation by faith alone
It seemed that the pamphlets unintentionally spread because after Luther’s imprisonment during 1520 &
1530s
oLuther’s Reformation passed through hands of theologians & into view of the magistrates &
princes
oConsequentially, they mandated new religious reforms
oGives support that Luther had intentions to reform rather than create a new religion. He stated
that there were fallacies in the current way of teaching & he felt that ….?
