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Jiang argues that indulgences, simony, relic sales, worldly clerics, tithes, and landholding turned the church's spiritual authority into corruption and special privilege.
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Jiang argues that indulgences, simony, relic sales, worldly clerics, tithes, and landholding turned the church's spiritual authority into corruption and special privilege.
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"So what was really important was for the church to focus on spirituality. With power, the church slowly became more corrupted, okay? So let's..."
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"So they want to buy relics in order to channel the divine power of Jesus, right? Well, the church would sell these relics, and..."
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"The very last idea is the idea of feudalism. And this means that the church controlled, at its height, one third of all the..."
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