HUMA 1125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Purgatory, Ninety-Five Theses, Johann Eck
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This fear is penalty enough: this fear is so bad that it is enough to cleanse the soul, purgatory = hell. Heaven = assurance: souls in purgatory need to find love - the more love the less their sin, a sinful soul does not have to be always sinful. Committed to the idea that salvation could be reached through faith and by divine grace only, luther vigorously objected to the corrupt practice of selling indulgences. Acting on this belief, he wrote the disputation on the power and efficacy of indulgences, also known as the 95 theses, a list of questions and propositions for debate. The 95 theses: would later become the foundation of the protestant reformation, was written in a remarkably humble and academic tone, questioning rather than accusing. Reformation: martin luther & letter to janneken: the other 93 theses, a number of them directly criticizing the practice of indulgences, supported these first two.
