Marin Luther, a German theologian and priest whose academic paper, the Ninety-five Theses, which outlined his grievance with the Catholic Church related to indulgences (the selling of reduced sentences in purgatory for sins committed by congregation members) prompted the Protestant Reformation in 1517. While the Reformation is generally said to have begun with Luther’s Ninety-five Theses, Luther himself was influenced by the writings of John Wyclif, an English bishop. Milton implies that without Wyclif, Luther may not have written his Theses.
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...of our prelates against the divine and admirable spirit of Wyclif,” perhaps neither Hus, Jerome, Luther nor Calvin would have been known. “The glory of reforming all our neighbors had been...
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