Which of the following reasons suggests why common people supported the Lutheran Reformation?
A) Luther advocated the overthrow of the authority of the German princes.
B) Lutheranism sanctioned money-making and other earthly pursuits more wholeheartedly than did traditional Catholicism.
C) Luther's reforms meant that indulgences and other ecclesiastical means of salvation would become less expensive and more readily available to the poor.
D) Luther advocated redistribution of land and property throughout Germany.
Ans: B) Lutheranism sanctioned money-making and other earthly pursuits more wholeheartedly than did traditional Catholicism.
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