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How was Martin Luther's Message Misinterpreted, and what was the Significance of the Peasants War?
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Claire Wightman How was Martin Luther's Message Misinterpreted, and what was the Significance of the Peasants War? Luther's ideas and publications had always been based on the church and its religious practices. Most importantly to Luther was his central belief in solafide, this meant 'by faith alone' all that mattered was the soul and this could be made eternal by just having faith. However in 1525 peasants in Germany used Luther's theology as a reason for their rebellions occurring. This was potentially fatally damaging to the Lutheran movement. Luther's ideas were to be so badly misinterpreted because the peasants were already discontent with their social situation, and had been for a century. Luther's pamphlets such as, 'the freedom of the Christian man' were therefore used as justification in the violence that followed. A culmination of the peasant's war was a publication of their demands, 'the Twelve Articles of Memmingen'. The peasant's war...
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