History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . The Revolt of Germany against the Papacy 507 charitys sake ? or, Since the Pope is rich as Croesus, why doeshe not build St. Peters with his own money, instead of takingthat of the poor man? 737. Luther becomes Suspicious of the Papacy. Luther nowbegan to read church history and reached the conclusion that theinfluence of the popes had not been very great until the timesof Gregory VII (§§ 591-593), and therefore that they had notenjoyed their supremacy over the Church for more than fourhundred years before his
History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . The Revolt of Germany against the Papacy 507 charitys sake ? or, Since the Pope is rich as Croesus, why doeshe not build St. Peters with his own money, instead of takingthat of the poor man? 737. Luther becomes Suspicious of the Papacy. Luther nowbegan to read church history and reached the conclusion that theinfluence of the popes had not been very great until the timesof Gregory VII (§§ 591-593), and therefore that they had notenjoyed their supremacy over the Church for more than fourhundred years before his own birth. He was mistaken in thisconclusion, but he had hit upon an argument that has been con-stantly urged by Protestants ever since. They assert that thepower of the Medieval Church and of the papacy developedgradually and that the apostles knew nothing of Masses, indul-gences, pilgrimages, purgatory, or the headship of the bishop ofRome. The publication of Luthers theses brought him many sympa-thizers in Germany. Some were attracted by his protests againstthe ways in whic
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