... . Martin Luther's upbringing and education greatly influenced his opinion on the Roman Catholic Church during the Middle Ages. Luther was born in 1483 to a small but free family of landholders. His father wished for him to study law, so he did at the University of Erfurt until 1505. In July of 1505, "Luther became frightened during a severe thunderstorm on the road near ... he would become a monk if he were spared"(Christianity Through the Centuries, 289) Luther was ordained a priest in 1507. In 1508 he was sent to the University of Wittenberg to study and lecture on Aristotle. It was in...

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... and how they now are in the church. I never knew that the church had gone through so many more in depth changes than some that I have know about including speaking English in mass instead of Latin. My grandma is always telling me that I should realize how lucky I am that things like that have changed, and now when she says that I ... impact on the way the church has evolved to the way it was today. As I think of the Catholic Church certain images come to mind. I think of Sunday masses, bible study, and authority figures such as priests bishops and the pope. I think of things such as the ...

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