Christianity

• Church Corruption in Europe

  Simony and Sale of Indulgences
• Simony

  people buying their way into positions of power in the church

   
• sale of indulgences

  people paying money to get their sins forgiven
• Luther was opposed to the churches corruption so he created 95 Thesis and it spread throughout the world
• Change → Protestant

  Reformation

  catholics cleaned up a lot of the corruption Protestants were complaining about at the Council of Trent
• Continuity → Dominance of Catholicism

  reaffirmed that their doctorine of salvation was just fine