Views During The Time of the Reformation (25): Views on the Church: The Material Principle

The spark that ignited that great movement in the history of the Church of God which is known as the Reformation was Luther's nailing of the ninety-five theses to the church door at Wittenberg. And the incident which led to this act of the German Reformer was the shameless sale of indulgences as practiced by Tetzel, an eloquent Dominican Friar who peddled indulgences in an unusually scandalous and shameless manner near the Saxony border in the neighborhood of Wittenberg. The spark that ignited...