Question

2. Describe the belief in purgatory and explain the reason for the sale of indulgences

Answer 1

The belief in purgatory and the reason for the sale of indulgences:

• The sale of indulgences was a long-standing scandal (already satirized in Chaucer) which had been given a theological basis as early as the Bull Unigenitas in 1343.
• While Purgatory is a state of suffering for sinners who expiate sins before going to Heaven.
• This declared that the merit Christ had displayed in sacrificing himself was even greater than the amount needed to redeem the entire human race.
• It went on to proclaim that the Church has the power to dispense this extra merit by selling indulgences to those who confess by selling sins.
• The doctrine was dangerously extended by Sixtus IV in 1476 with the claim that souls in purgatory could also be helped by the purchase of an indulgence on their behalf.

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