... history of the Church is perhaps one of the rockiest histories of any institution in existence. In the Bible it is recorded to have officially begun in Acts, when the Holy Spirit, being promised to come by Christ, is thought to have ascended on the believers. Although it can be argued that Church's first roots lie in the coming of Christ, many ... longer able to tolerate Luther, the pope issued a ban against him. He hoped that the German people would rally around him and follow the edict of the ban. Furthermore, the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, summoned Luther to Rome. It was in Rome ...

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... lecturer on moral philosophy at the newly founded University of Wittenburg, founded by Frederick the Elector of Saxony. Luther was offered the chance to go to Rome, which was the holy city at the time. He expected this to be a life-changing experience, but it only disappointed him. He spent four weeks there and found that it was a worldly and ungodly ... nobility and clergy, in Worms at four o"clock on April 17, 1521. They gave Luther twenty-four hours to decide whether or not he would retract his statements against the Holy Roman Empire. He spent the night in prayer and came back the n...

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... discovery. Quite the same way the medieval church being corrupt justifies the success of Martin Luthers Reformation. By depicting the churches popes as power-hungry totalitarians who aided in the Holy Inquisition and stole money from poor people through tithes and indulgences one must assume that Luther and other "reformers" should gain credit for bringing the church back to the Old ... New Testament itself. It doesn't account for the state of the church realistically rather it calls for the internalization of religion and to answer the call of conversion. In the spirit of medieval Chri...

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