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To: Petrosius

“The abuse concerning the sale of indulgences was by Johann Tetzel, not the pope. “

That’s like saying you didn’t buy an HP computer, you bought from an HP salesman.


59 posted on 01/28/2020 11:45:18 AM PST by rintintin
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To: rintintin
That’s like saying you didn’t buy an HP computer, you bought from an HP salesman.

What Tetzel did was not authorized by the pope and constituted the canonical crime of simony. But again, Luther went beyond just objecting to abuse; the Reformation was a wholesale rejection of Church teaching.

61 posted on 01/28/2020 12:09:52 PM PST by Petrosius
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