Martin Luther King

How Did Martin Luther Challenge Loyalty

To The Roman Catholic Church

In our society today, it is ruled with a firm hand.

Similar aspects of our modern society and how our society

was. Back then in the early fifteen - hundreds were

similar. Such as today the public has the right to free

speech and to build and choose a strong democracy, and a

responsible loyal leader. The people in our life want to

seek independence and live their own life from the ruler.

In a unique way, all things have a ruler for instance the

church in our case for Catholics, Pope John Paul is the

Catholic religion ruler; and as it was back in the fifteen-

Hundreds, a man named Martin Luther became an important

ruler. In the year of fifteen-seventeen, a German monk

named Martin Luther wrote a reformation that changed the

life of the Roman Catholic Church.

Martin Luther was born in Eisleben on November 10,1483

(Beers, Burton page 246). Luther’s family was peasants

but still being peasants they were wealthy. Luther was

survived by his father Hans Luther his occupation was a

copper miner(Flowers page 27). When Luther got older, his

father sent him out to study law at the University of

Wittenburg; not interested in the idea of law school,

Luther dropped the class sold his learning books and left

school. After Luther left school he later joined a

monastery. The reason why Luther decided to join a

monastery was one night, while walking home a storm began

to brew from up above while not taking shelter, lightning

struck Luther and in fear Luther cried “ Saint Anne, help

me; For I will become a monk”(Beers page 247). Being true

to his words Luther joined a monastery where he taught

Bible studies and studied theology in order to become a

professor. His friends and family were shocked by his

actions.

While in training Luther began to believe

that a person’s sin cannot be removed by just doing good

deeds but to have faith in god. With Luther’s beliefs he

then accuses the selling of indulgences or the removal of

sin after death in purgatory through money which was made

by the church. That is one way Luther is loyal to the

church but in this case Luther can do the opposite.

Luther challenges loyalty against the church by

composing ninety-five questions for arguments against the