... , was not the teaching of the church but the Bible, interpreted according to the individual's conscience" (Strayer 1995: 35-36). He believed that what one construes in their conscience while reading the Bible is how they should live their life since the Bible has all of the answers. "All of this served to undermine the authority of the Catholic church generally ... Luther's ideas was the printing press. Calls for reform and criticisms of papal claims imbued with a nationalist spirit and bolstered with solid scholarly research were spread to the masses with a speed unmatched in earlier ce...

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