... monastics ('Concerning Monastic Vows') "Not freely or desirously did I become a monk, but walled around with the terror and agony of sudden death, I vowed a constrained and necessary vow'. This gives evidence that Luther was yet to form any basic theologies and his administration into the Augustinian order was unplanned. Luther entered the Augustinian order of monks and began a devoted life to prayer, meditation and the search for salvation. Luther's first doubts were visible when he witnessed the monasteries double act as a business. They dyed and sold cloth, owned a brewery and let out land earning vast amounts of money whilst preaching that money was the root to all evil. Luther made his profession as a monk in September 1506 and was ordained a priest in 1507. He had studied a treatise on the canon of the mass by a famous Nominalist Gabriel Biel who claimed that only ...

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