... the Catholic Church in the sixteenth-century can be greatly attributed to the Reformation in 1517. No longer dominating rulers as the church once had, it tried to hold control of the people by the way they viewed salvation and on how to achieve salvation. Martin Luther and Erasmus ... than the church believed. Erasmus believed in fellowship with God and not indulgences. Luther led a more radical change wanting the church to correct errors in its doctrine with the practices of granting indulgences. He believed that an individual could be granted salvation by faith alone. Both Luther ... ...

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... three sources from the time (Gregory VII, Manegold of Lautenbach, and the Anonymous of York), a good interpretation of the differing opinions of that time can be formed. Therefore, the conflicting ideas regarding king and pope were formed as the tensions between the two grew. As the power of the church was ... action in 1075 when he prohibited all lay investiture. His decree claimed that any people of the clergy appointed by lay persons would be a false appointment because it was, " bereft of apostolic authority" (Tierney 51). Seeing as how lay investiture had seemed to become tradition a...

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