sale of indulgences

His railing against the sale of indulgences was based on it.

In the 15th century, the sale of indulgences was used to finance the construction.

He preached against corruption, superstition and the sale of indulgences.

In addition to the sale of indulgences, they set up prayer houses and directly taxed the people.

At first he protested against corruption such as simony or the sale of indulgences.

His revolt eventually led the Catholic Church to ban the sale of indulgences.

Within the large scale of the Fugger business, however, the sale of indulgences was insignificant.

The Church openly carried on a sale of indulgences in lust to ecclesiastics which finally took the form of a tax.

His two principal arguments contest the existence of purgatory and the sale of indulgences.

SIR – The sale of indulgences, to those who could afford them, was called simony.

One could almost hear an echo of Martin Luther denouncing the sale of indulgences.

Early protest was against corruptions such as simony, episcopal vacancies, and the sale of indulgences.

Fish's pamphlet rejects the sale of indulgences.

He preached against the sale of indulgences, which lost him the support of the king, who had received a percentage of such sales.

His theses protested key points of Catholic doctrine as well as the sale of indulgences.

He compares the manipulation of sick people, into paying for prayers, to the sale of indulgences:

Frustrated, he forbade the sale of indulgences in his electorate and allowed Martin Luther to polemicize against them.

The papacy was left to fund itself with stop-gap measures, which included the sale of indulgences, which would play a divisive role in the future.

Martin Luther wrote Ninety-Five Theses on the sale of indulgences in 1517.

It is said he debated with the head of his order, Johann von Staupitz, there about the so-called sale of indulgences.

The church later banned the sale of indulgences, but the Vatican reaffirmed their religious importance at the Council of Trent in 1563.

He regarded the archbishop's show, and his sale of indulgences, as a rival, and he wanted to stop the export of bullion.

Many western Catholics were troubled by what they saw as false doctrines and malpractices within the Church, particularly involving the teaching and sale of indulgences.

Martin Luther in 1517 protested against the sale of indulgences and soon moved on to deny several key points of Roman Catholic doctrine.

The disputation protests against clerical abuses, especially nepotism, simony, usury, pluralism, and the sale of indulgences.