The Protestant Reformation.

Luther initiated the Protestant Reformation. The Protestant Reformation had the goal to separate from the Catholic Church. Luther had been enraged with the church's selling of Indulgences. Not only was the church misleading people about the authenticity of Indulgences but the funds from the sales were used to fund St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Citizens would not have minded them so much if they had only benefited their local area, but instead it wasn't. Luther …

…monster" like the Catholic Church. Luther's 95 theses was just a way to protest and fight without using violence. But it wasn't the 95 theses alone, there were many documents published for Protestants against the Catholic Church, with the goal of branching away. These were circulated throughout Europe and Germany due to the recent invention of the Printing Press. These are the ways he chose to react, and to what degree to the questions of the day.