The Awakening: The Life Of Martin Luther

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According to the textbook Martin Luther was one of the greatest guys from the renaissance. People believed that if you bought a slip of paper that you would go straight to heaven. Martin Luther didn’t believe that so he read the bible. “Through his study of the bible Luther arrived at an answer to a problem”(textbook pg.173). Martin Luther found out that “Catholic teaching had stressed that both faith and good works were needed to gain personal salvation”(textbook pg.173). Another thing is that Martin Luther thought all humans we 're powerless “In the sight of the almighty God”(textbook pg.173). Martin Luther went to the catholic church and nailed a paper with 95 theses ”Luther, who was greatly angered by the Church 's practices, sent a

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