Martin Luther was a religious radical in the sense that his main goal was to reform the church, and he was going to use any means necessary to accomplish his goal. He rejected clerical celibacy along with the other doctrines of the old church. He formed Protestantism, which had four main ideas: That a person achieves salvation through faith alone, religious authority resides in s

criptures, the church is the people, and the highest form of church life is everyone (there is a merit in each church vocation). Many of these ideas that Luther had, differed from the Catholic views, causing many conflicts. A well-known difference was seen in communion. Catholics were taught to believe that they were eating the body and blood of Christ, this was called transubstantiation. While Protestants were taught that communion was symbolic, not to be taken literally, he called this consubstantiation.

Therefore, Luther was a social reformer, because he reformed the social classes, and their views on education and worship. As for a political conservative, Luther gained a backing from German princes, and many other high ranking state officials; because with the Church losing power, it allowed more power to be given back to the state. Luther never wanted war, or revolts, he simply wanted to reform the church. Luther held many debates and wrote many things. He wanted to take power away from the Church and return th

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