Keywords
protestant ecclesiastical anarchy, dogmatic diversity
Abstract
Mark Noll’s Protestantism is a brief, interesting, and useful account of a religious movement that began with the remonstrance of a contentious German monk who, much like others in the Latin Catholic Church before and after him, called for reform. On 31 October 1517 in the small town of Wittenberg in Saxony, Martin Luther (1483–1546) certainly did not plan on founding a new church. His was merely a “local protest” (p. 10). Among other things, Luther complained about the sale of indulgences, which were believed to ease the pain of those presumably undergoing a necessary postmortem purging. This tiny event eventually led to a radical division of Western (Latin) Christianity into Protestantism and the Roman Catholic Church.
Recommended Citation
Midgley, Louis C.
(2013)
"Protestant Ecclesiastical Anarchy and Dogmatic Diversity,"
Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship: Vol. 6, Article 6.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/interpreter/vol6/iss1/6
