Martin Luther

Martin Luther (famous for his 95 Theses) was a person who did not just follow the normal. Not only did he notice not follow the normal and think about the way he felt about something, but did he also take action. Martin luther stood for the idea that a Christian is not just a person who does good works. Martain Luther expressed this view in the sermon On Good Works. Luther especially thought that the church was becoming more of a business than it was a church,. This is also seen in the case when Jesus clears out the the temple inthe book of Matthew. Though there were many other smaller causes for the reformation the main cause was for the reason of the church loosing its meaning. Floating around the Cathloic Church at the time were many ideas that would encourage people to spend money in order to purchase relics and indulgence. Popes and priest of the time were very much into making sure that they were looked up to. The problem was the the clergy were often very hypocritic. This was partially due to the fact that they were often giving their own versions of the passages.

To-day there are many pastors, bound to feed their hungry flock with the Word of God...who were to teach it to their parishioners in sermons. The mother of all errors and ought above all to be shunned by priests, whose office consisted in preaching and teaching archdeacon should inquire vicars, rectors or priests were "enormously illiterate,".

In response to the church, Luther often did not follow or preach positively about the use of indulgences. Most of his work is famous because of the impact that it had when he refused to follow the church as a business. Though he was not well like by many of the higher clergy such as some of the later popes, and was often threatned to be sentenced to purgatory, Martin Luther did not die due to being attacked, and continued to work for what he believed in -which was that the church needed to be reformed back to a church- until he died of lung problems (possibly from the areas local mine) on February 18, 1546, at age 62, in Eisleben, Germany.

Today this argument of the chruch becoming a buiness still exist, but now is more of an issue as weather mega-churches should be built or not in order to maintain focus on the church as "the body of people who attend or belong to a particular local church".

Deanesly, Margaret. The Lollard Bible and Other Medieval Biblica Versions. University Press. 1920

McGiffe, Arthur Cushman. Martin Luther: The Man and His Work. The Century Co. 1911