Examples of indulgences in the following topics:
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- In 1516, Johann Tetzel, a Dominican friar and papal commissioner for indulgences, was sent to Germany by the Roman Catholic Church to sell indulgences to raise money to rebuild St.
- On October 31, 1517, Luther wrote to his bishop, Albert of Mainz, protesting the sale of indulgences.
- In theses 41–47 Luther begins to criticize indulgences on the basis that they discourage works of mercy by those who purchase them.
- Here he begins to use the phrase, "Christians are to be taught..." to state how he thinks people should be instructed on the value of indulgences.
- They should be taught that giving to the poor is incomparably more important than buying indulgences, that buying an indulgence rather than giving to the poor invites God's wrath, and that doing good works makes a person better while buying indulgences does not.
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- Luther began by criticizing the selling of indulgences, insisting that the pope had no authority over purgatory and that the Catholic doctrine of the merits of the saints had no foundation in the gospel.
- Czech), married priests, and to eliminate indulgences and the idea of purgatory.
- Hus spoke out against indulgences in 1412 when he delivered an address entitled Quaestio magistri Johannis Hus de indulgentiis.
- In response, three men from the lower classes who openly called the indulgences a fraud were beheaded.
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- In October 1517 Luther published the 95 Theses, challenging papal authority and criticizing its perceived corruption, particularly with regard to instances of sold indulgences.
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- The
Sramanas renounced married and domestic life and adopted an ascetic path (one
of severe self-discipline and abstention from all indulgence) in order to achieve
spiritual liberation.
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- The dominant Vedic ritualism contrasted with
the beliefs of the Sramanas followers who renounced married and domestic life
and adopted an ascetic path, one of severe self-discipline and abstention from
all indulgence, in order to achieve spiritual liberation.
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- The
Sramanas renounced married and domestic life, and adopted an ascetic path—
one
of severe self-discipline and abstention from all indulgence—in order to achieve
spiritual liberation.
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- Theoderic may have tried too hard to accommodate the various people under his dominion; indulging "Romans and Goths, Catholics and Arians, Latin and barbarian culture" resulted in the eventual failure of the Ostrogothic reign and the subsequent "end of Italy as the heartland of late antiquity."
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- He had no interest in
politics or government, preferring to engage in lavish court festivities,
religious indulgences, and the theater.
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- The Knights Templar were recognized, and grants of crusading indulgences to those who opposed papal enemies are seen by some historians as the beginning of politically motivated crusades.