RLG100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Purgatory, Indulgence, Sola Fide
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Focuses around concerns like practice and theology, indulgences. Not the first to recognize that the church was corrupt, but the first to go against it: ex. Wycliffe and hus, both punished for being heretic. Going against the church is dangerous because it had the power to stamp out" dissent: enemy of the church was an enemy of the state, they had political power. Didn"t set out to do anything radical , but decided to become a monk. Participated in all aspects of the faith, but his questions still weren"t answered, so he decided to become a professor in theology. He develops a new idea of what christianity is. He went on a pilgrimage to rome, upset that they church was more interested in money, control and power: ex. Indulgences: paper sold by the church to release you from your time in purgatory, they were sold when the church needed money.
