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HERE IS THE QUESTIONS

QUESTIONS: Answer each question in your notebooks using COMPLETE SENTENCES.
Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses
1. Explain how Luther and the Catholic Church differed on their views about how to achieve salvation.
2. What are theses? What did Luther do with his 95 Theses?
3. How did the printing press help Luther?
Reaction to Luther’s Ideas
4. Describe the Church’s reaction to Luther’s 95 Theses using three different adjectives.
5. How did the Church decide to punish Luther? What are three ways that this affected him?
6. Why did some people decide to support Luther’s ideas even though he was an outlaw?
7. Imagine that you are Martin Luther. Do you think you would have been brave enough to tell the Church your radical ideas, knowing that there might be consequences?
A New Church
8. How did the Protestant Reformation effect the common people?
9. Explain why some kings and nobles were willing to support the Protestant Reformation.
10. Do you think Martin Luther should be considered a hero? Why or why not? What lessons can you learn from his actions?

Answer 1

Answers:

1. Luther believes that salvation comes through faith alone. The Catholic church believed that a mix of faith and good works leads to salvation.

2. The 95 theses were written by Martin Luther describing everything that was wrong with the catholic church. Luther nailed the 95 theses to the Wittenburg Church.

3. The printing press allowed for a rapid spread of ideas to a whole new group of people. This caused Luther's ideas to be widely accepted, eventually leading to the Protestant Revolution.

4. Panicked, quick, and shifting. The Catholic church panicked because these ideas spread by Luther had the potential for people to view Catholicism differently. They moved very quickly and attacked with a reformation of their own, which shifted their current practices to others. For example, the Catholic reformation lead to the end of the sale of indulgences, worship services being in vernacular instead of Latin, and improved training and education for priests.

5. The Catholic Church punished Luther by excommunicating him. He was declared a heretic and an outlaw by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. Being excommunicated means that he was cut off from family, friends, and work.

6. People decided to support Luther because they were tired of the Catholic Church's abuses but were scared to bring it to light. When Luther posted the 95 theses, people followed in hopes of creating a religion that included everyone, not just the rich who could afford to pay for indulgences and make it to heaven.

7. I would not, the Catholic Church in this era was incredibly powerful and I wouldn't be to leave my family and friends behind to prove a point.

8. The protestant reformation allowed for church services to be in vernacular language instead of Latin, which most common people wouldn't be able to understand. The end of the sale of indulgences allowed the common people to have faith that they would be able to be saved.

9. People of high ranks such as princes, kings, and nobles, supported Luther despite him being an outlaw because they thought they could take advantage of his ideas by, not having to pay extra money to the Church.

10. Martin Luther should be considered a hero because he was able to stand up to an incredibly powerful institution because he saw that there were multiple flaws in the system. A lesson I can learn is to stand up to injustice when we see it.