What led to Luther's break from Rome?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary, but students should reflect an understanding of what indulgences are, how they were used by the Catholic Church to create a theology based on good works and financial donations to the church, and Luther's theological objections to the process of using indulgences to "pay off" sinners' time in Purgatory. Further complicating Luther's relationship with the church was a growing sense that free will as defined by the Church was not based in Biblical teachings, and was therefore wrong. After the printing and distribution of his Ninety-Five Theses, which attacked the sale of indulgences among other Catholic practices, he was excommunicated, which led to a final break with Rome and the pursuit of Luther as a fugitive criminal.
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