1. Doctrines of Luther

2. Key event
95 theses posted in 1517

3. Faith Alone Humans are depraved.
Salvation is from God through faith alone.

4. Scripture Alone (Sola Scripture)
The Bible, not the Pope, is the centre of authority.
Individual interpretation of the Bible.
He denied everything that could not be backed up by Scripture.

5. Accepts only the sacraments of Baptism and Eucharist.
Believed in the real presence (Christ is truly present in the Eucharist) but denied Transubstantiation.
(i.e. the bread and wine is changed into the actual body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist).

6. Grace Alone (Good works) Rejected: Holy days, fast days,
honouring saints,
indulgences,
rosary,
monasticism.

7. Introduced the vernacular into the Eucharist.
(Catholic Church used Latin until the 1960’s.)