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An indulgence , in Catholic Theology, is the full or partial remission of temporal punishment due for sins which have already been forgiven. The indulgence is granted by the church after the sinner ...
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Background to ; Against the Sale of Indulgences by Martin Luther ... This excerpt contains the text of Luther's "95 Theses," which express his concerns about the sale of indulgences by the Catholic church.
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In mediaeval times, the Catholic church (bless them !) used to sell "indulgences". These were a pre-paid pardon for ... I also think poor people should be available for sale to rich people. The system worked for thousands of years before those damned civil libertarians came along and cocked up the natural order of things.
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iv. Sale of Indulgences. The RC hierarchy also claimed to have access to a repository of "excess good deeds" performed by the saints which could be used to liberate souls from Purgatory before the expiration of their appointed sentence there.
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Entreaty by Martin Luther concerning the sale of indulgences. Shows his stage of theological development through his arguments. ... Luther wrote to the Archbishop protesting the sale of indulgences to finance the building of a new cathedral. The Archbishop, of course, was one of the people who had authorized the sale...
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Nowhere, except in the lives of the popes themselves, did the humiliation of the Western Church find more conspicuous exhibition than in the sale of indulgences.
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§ 12. Zwingli and the Sale of Indulgences. ... Bernhardin Samson, a Franciscan monk of Milan, crossed the St. Gotthard to Switzerland in August, 1518, as apostolic general commissioner for the sale of indulgences.
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The sale of indulgences in the 1500's was primarily for the purpose of financing the construction of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. True, the practice was nothing new, but it had never been practiced quite so aggressively or widely until money was needed for this grand building scheme.
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The sale of indulgences in church; woodcut from the title page of Luther’s pamphlet On Aplas von Rom, published anonymously in Augsburg, 1525. ... The sale of indulgences in church; woodcut from the title page of Luther’s pamphlet … [Credits : Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum; photograph, John R.
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