he condemned religious images and hierarchal authority.this was because of his humanist inspired study of the Bible.1516 Zwingli was convinced that the Catholic theology and practice was conflicting with the Gospels.This is the most theologically moderate form of the three forms of Protestantism.Ulrich Zwingli, Zwinglianism’s founder, is born (1484-1531).The essence of this doctrine goes back to 400 with St.People whom God has justified through faith can perform good deeds and spiritual tasks to prove that they have been justified.This grace comes to humans through faith.He said that people are saved by God’s grace alone.Luther concluded that God’s justice didn’t need lots of spiritual tasks and good works, because people cannot be saved by their actions alone.
This revelation came to Luther in the tower room of his monastery, and is often called the “tower experience”.It struck him that God’s justice didn’t have to do with his power to punish, but in his mercy saving people through the faith.He studied the Bible, and came to a new understanding of the problem.He became at professor of biblical theology and at the University of Wittenberg.He worried that God issued commands that humans could not follow, then punish them for sinning.He feared that he could never perform enough spiritual deeds to deserve salvation.He would pray and fast continuously, also confess continuously.
His father sent him to the University of Erfurt to study law.Sixtus IV let the Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella have the right to name candidates for major church offices.This was a kind of storehouse for all the good works from Christ and the Saints.Popes dispensed special grace to living from the “Treasury of Merits”.The church began to present the process of salvation in quantitative terms, like if you do this good act, then your punishment you owe to God for your other sins would be reduced.Popes began to assign excess grace to the dead, known as indulgences.