95 Theses
What did it reveal about the past
The begining of the transition of the church's authority and a more individual outlook on life.
Attitudes and beliefs in the era.
Reconizing of the church's corrupt bias.
Result in Change
This primary topic did result in change
New concepts of forgiveness. Individuals are able to seek the divine themselves.
New ethical principal snd concepts
Sparked protest for reformation.
Repentance of an individual
Pretestant reformation.
Movemnts against the Catholic Church.
Which questions can this source help me answer? Which can it not?
What can it not help me answer?
Who was in suport of the
churches methods.
Who was in suport and who was not in support.
If the public still favoured its methods
What change did majority of people want?
Are the practeses such as indulgences the sole reason for the spred of reformation?
How far is the scope of the change?
Does it reach Spain? or France?
Can help me asnwer questions
Problems people had with the Catholic Church (during the 1500)
Martins views are based on (theology.
What Luthers views are
Can't only tell if it's based solely on theoretical
Does the church have any discruptencies in its authority?
Whose perspectives are omitted/questioned/challenged?
Directly challenged and questioned the churches authority.
Nailed his list to the door.
Challanged the church by how they are abusing their power as religious figures for wealth and power.
Bluntly questioned the members of the churches(Pope, Prists, ect)
Disputed facts that the Popes were so powerful.
Whose perspective does it reflect?
Focases on the christian ethics, not quite the establishment of the church.
Mainly a German point of view on the church because of the distance between them to Rome.
Martin Luther's the main prespective.
As well as his followers.
What ideas are left out?
Those in support of the churches methods --> in favour.
The justification for why the church did what they did/their own values.
Luther's ideas mainly involved christans in Europe, as he is from Germany.
What are the big ideas?
Christains should be taught.
Anyone is worth to talk/have a relationship with god. not just Preists and the Pope. Every one is "goog enough".
Repentance, indulgences, and penince.
Money does not buy forgivness.
Good Christans do not need to buy their spot into Heaven.
Who can forgive sin?
How does the author communicate ideas?
Put his list of rules prists should actually follow directly on the churches door.
Philosophical arguing called syllogisms to clearly show his audience his points.
Premise --> concusion
This reasoning shows he is educated thoughly in this type of argument.
Listing Method
Lists often repersents having problems, so Luthers lists repersented his problems with the church.
Sudgests having a problem by making lists
Wrote his argument in a list
Who wrote it? Why?
Luther was a Germen Monk
who was an expert in thelogy
Due to the fact that he is
German, he mainly went
after German Churches
Had a greater unerstanding of the
churches ethical values.
Martin Luther
Had a problem with churches ethical views (collecting money to get into heaven)
What does it look like?
Old and aged paper,
slightly yellowed/browned.
Written in expert black calligraphy,
possibly written by a professional
calligrapher.
Exerpt from the 1517
"95 Theses"
