| Arguments
against the issuing of indulgences that provoked public debate of
the program of Protestant reform. |
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In
this document of 1520, Pope Leo X condemned Luther's writings
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Following the
issuance of the Disputation Against Scholastic Theology, a series
of theses against the method and substance of medieval Roman Catholic
scholasticism,
Luther prepared another series
of statements or theses against the granting of indulgences.
This touched both popular and ecclesiastical interests and aroused a
storm of controversy. The posting of these theses is traditionally regarded
as the public beginning of the Protestant Reformation, although this
might more accurately be attributed to the Disputation Against Scholastic
Theology.
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