Renaissance+Religion

shorter and more people learned the christian beliefs because to them it was proof. Now bibles were thriving and more people converted to christianity. The printed bible revolutionized christian beliefs because more people were able to read it because it was now easily excessable. It affected economicaly because more people bought books and printing companys sprouted up. It also affected socialy because more and more religious events came up. || This picture shows Martin Luther nailing the 95 thesis he created when he started the reformation. This was a major slap in the face to the Catholic church. There we more than several disputes between him and the church. Martin Luther said that indulgences could be earned by faith only. Not by giving the church money to spend less time in purgatory. Socialy it made less people afraid and more people had more money to spend on other things. Since Indulgences ( the lessening of time in purgatory ) cost many beleivers alot of money for them. || Martin Luther(humanist) was the leader of the Protestant reformation which took part in the new type of religion based off of the Catholic religion. Instead of paying for indulgence they just could achieve this by faith only. Socialy this created less stress for believers and made it much easier to spend less time in purgatory. Economicaly it made it better because instead of buying indulgences you could spend it on other things. It did not really affect politacly but it effect the catholic church alot. It lowered income from them because they made big profite from indulgences. ||
 * [[image:jessezmuseum/Gutenberg-Bible.jpg width="266" height="212"]] || [[image:jessezmuseum/95-Theses.jpg width="237" height="232"]] || [[image:jessezmuseum/martin-luther.jpg width="165" height="227"]] ||
 * GutenBerg revolutionized writing with the printing press but he also printed the first bible which was very important, especialy for the Christians. The Bible was the source for all the christian beleifs. Before it was printed the bible costed tons of money for a copy because it was hand printed. Which could take over a year to complete. But the printing press took alot

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