what were the long-term and short-term causes of the lutheran reformation?

Question

I know luther didnt consciously set out to seek establishment of a new prostestant form of christianity; I am just having trouble trying to grasp what exactly caused him to do so.

Answer 1

All Luther was trying to do was to change the corruption within the Catholic Church. He basically wanted to be able to worship without being threatened with Hell for not paying the church to take away sins. He hated the corruption and such of the priests. Any good website will show the short term and long term effects in detail.

Answer 2

Luther started the "reformation" to reform the Roman Catholic church out of several practices that were in his mind (and mine) contrary to Scripture such as the selling of indulgences, the ideas of the merits of Christ and of the saints being purchasable, the idea that the Bible was not to be disseminated amongst normal people, etc.
You are correct that his goal was not to seek a new denomination, but rather to fix, reform, and work on correcting the Roman Catholic church. When the Pope excommunicated him, he was left with little other choice than to work as a "rogue" priest with other "rogue priests" that eventually became the Evangelicals which we know as Lutherans today.

Answer 3

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