HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 55: Johann Tetzel, Johann Reuchlin, Purgatory
6 Apr 2020
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From staupitz, reuchlin and kayserberg, luther received sometimes indirectly, a training in grace, scripturalism, and vernacular preaching: tetzel. He was near luther"s town of wittenberg in 1517. Indulgences were payments that could be made to contribute to lessening the works of satisfaction. These works constituted the third phase of the sacrament of penance after contrition and confession. The practice of selling them emerged out of compensation offered for the saying of masses and related prayers. Happened over the course of the middle ages. The idea was to offset the cost of the clergy taking the time to say masses: purgatory. Such practices were very popular in light of the doctrine of purgatory. In dante"s work, souls still had many works of satisfaction to preform after their bodies were dead. From latin-western christians with money to spend, the purchasing of indulgences to help with works of satisfaction made sense.
