RLGA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Canonization, Ninety-Five Theses, Protestantism
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Wants us to take responsibility individually as well as together with the community. Establishing relationships with the divine is individual but serving as a community is social. Individual focus, as well as duty to community. Autonomy + voluntary -> conscious individual choice. Protestants think baptism -> should be a choice and there should be for adults which would. Germany region - clamped on too much self-reflection/rebellion which is not good. But early god (pope) is not subject or above. Getting in the way between us and god. Have to go through the church to get to god (rituals, money, and pilgrimage) Luther thought that these types of mediation blocked us from the divine (obstacles) Wealthy people giving money and church would pay for the ancestors and people to forgive. Their sins and save them a place in heaven. Pope + priests -> ministers, pastors, celibacy/monasteries. Once luther gets social political power he shuts down monasteries and nunneries (aristocratic)
