History of the United States I / Unit 2 USH1 0163 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Luther's Three Grievances
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The idea
Luther, a German Catholic monk, objected to the selling of indulgences, the Church's taxation of ordinary Germans, and mass delivered in Latin, which taught them nothing.
In practice
The Ninety-Five Theses nailed to a church door at Wittenberg in fifteen seventeen.
Where people slip
He hoped to reform the Church from inside it, and triggered the Reformation instead.
Your place on the trail
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