s of Catholicism. The main deviance in Protestant doctrine in is the answer of how a person obtains salvation. In Catholic doctrine a person obtains salvation through good works and penance. Luther felt that there is no amount of good works a person could perform to be worth of everlasting salvation. In "Justification by Faith Alone" Luther says, " I grasp that the justice of God is that righteousness by which through grace and sheer mercy God justifies us through faith" (Luther 261). Luther's statement means that the way to obtain salvation is to believe and trust Jesus Christ and God (Kagen 357). Also Protestantism emphasized scripture over ritual. Luther attacked the catholic ritual in his Babylonian Captivity of the Church. He said that only two of the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church were biblical. Those two sacraments are baptism and the Eucharist. The Catholic Churchs policy of selling indulgences was another important part of the Catholic Church Luther attacked. He thought the idea that a person could buy their way to salvation was utterly wrong. He went on to say that the pope was not infallible (Kagen 360). That idea went completely against what the Catholic Church believed. These were some of the ways that Protestant Doctrine differed from Catholic Doctrine.Protestantism spread in a very unique way. The spread of Protestantism did not just spread because people truly believed in the teachings of Luther and other Protestant reformers. A main reason that it spread was that it gave the laymen the opportunity to gain more power for themselves. Cammeron writes that the blending and coalition of reformers protest and laymens political ambitions is the essence of the Reformation (Cammeron, 272). With the laymen support of the Reformation new laws and ordinances began to spring up in sixteenth century Europe. Ozment writes, cities and territories passed laws and ordinances that progressively ended or severel...
