Homework - 5/13

Homework – Due Monday (5/16) - Do the questions that were attached to the hand-out that you were given.

Read pages 449-451 in the textbook and “Luther: The 95 Theses” and answer the following questions:

Textbook

1.         Why did people think the Catholic Church strayed from its spiritual roots in the 1500s?

2.         Explain two reasons that people were growing dissatisfied with the Catholic Church by the early 1500s. 

3.         How did Luther’s 95 Theses become so well known?

4.         What three things did Luther do in 1519 to “shock” many people?

5.         What was the Edict of Worms and what effects did it have?

95 Theses

Choose five of the “Theses” where Martin Luther condemns the use of indulgences and

put that “thesis” into your own words.

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Read pages 449-451 in the textbook, “Luther: The 95 Theses” and “Luther’s Address to the German Nobility” and answer the following questions:

Textbook

1.         Explain two reasons that people were growing dissatisfied with the Catholic Church by the early 1500s.

2.         What three things did Luther do in 1519 to “shock” many people?

3.         What was the Edict of Worms and what effects did it have?

95 Theses

Explain how Luther’s “Theses” emphasize

a)         abuses he saw in the Catholic Church

b)         what he saw as the proper practices of followers of the Catholic Church

Use at least 3 “theses”, each, to explain your answers.

German Nobility

Summarize Luther’s attacks on the “three walls” that have been built to, in his opinion,

keep the Catholic Church from making reforms.