Martin Luther Influence

Martin Luther, a theologian, who was excommunicated by Pope Leo X from the Catholic Church, eternally transformed Christianity by starting the protestant reformation, creating the 95 these, and making the bible available to everyone. Luther was born as a peasant on November 10, 1483 in Eisleben. Luther’s father was a very successful miner and soon after he was born they moved to Mansfield, which was a larger mining town. Luther’s father did not want him to become a miner, he wanted his son to have a better life than himself, so he decided to helping Luther with whatever he need to become a lawyer. Luther was on the right track to becoming a lawyer, he stared school at the age 7 and he was sent to different schools and he enrolled in the university of Erfurt when something completely changed his life. July 1505, Luther’s life was about to change completely. He got caught in a dreadful thunderstorm and he was terrified for his life so he decided to pray. He screamed, “Save me, St. Anna, and I shall become a monk”. July 17th he decided to enroll in to the Augustinian Monastery in Erfurt, even though he …show more content…
The ninety-five these was an outrageous evaluation of the church’s sale of indulgences that explained the fundamentals of justification. Luther decided to send them to the archbishop and asked him to end the sale of indulgence. The Archbishop was aggrieved by this and felt like Luther was trying to attack the papal authority. A year later at a meeting, Luther was more precise about what he wanted. After the meeting he was asked to renounce his positions, Luther did not want to give up his opinion. In 1519, while he continued to lecture and write in Wittenberg, he joined another debate over indulgences. At that moment the pop had enough of and threatened to excommunicate him. On December 10th he received the letter for excommunication, and he was officially excommunicated in