... Roman Catholic church and wanted to return the church in Bohemia and Moravia to early Byzantine inspired practices like having lay people receive communion in both kinds like bread and wine, married priests and eliminating indulgences and the ideas of purgatory.[Oberman and Walliser,s.pp.54-55]. Hus rejected indulgences and adopted a doctrine of justification by grace through faith alone. Finally ... celibacy, fasting, confessional, monasticism and indulgences like Luther did. His main point of difference with Luther was sacramental like Eucharistic, marriage and baptism where Zwingli b...

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... Ladislas. He also was opposed to the fornication of priest and deemed them heretics. In his defense of Wycliffe he supported the view that after consecration the bread and wine remained bread and wine even though he affirmed the real presence of Jesus, and this would cause controversy. Huss was very vocal when it came to the sins of priest which brought ... ...

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... clergy was at the top of the medieval social hierarchy. The clergy was also treated differently than people outside of Church. Priests and churches were exempted from a sales tax on wine and beer, and clergymen were tried before the bishops' courts, separate from the commoners. Church courts also had jurisdiction over commoners in matrimonial disputes, wills, and any other statements attested ... ...

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... for salvation. Also, Luther agreed with the church's role of transubstantiation but argued priests should not be involved in the transformation. In the Catholic Church, the priests would hold the wine and drink it for the congregation but Luther disagreed with that particular concept. When Luther posted his "95 Theses" on the doors of the Wittenberg Castle, the way the usual ... ...

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... as revelation, transubstabtiation, eucharist and the primacy of the Pope as responses to the challengesof the Protestant beliefs.Transubstantiation, or the 'doctrine of the real presence' where the bread and wine offered up at comminion has it's substance cahnged to that of the body and blood, soul and divinty of jesus.The Protestants didn't believe this to be true.The pope ... ...

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