Translation of "Ablasshandel" in English

These indulgences are not applicable to the souls departed.

The selling of indulgences, the 95 Theses – what was all that again?

Now reverend dignitaries could wallow in the sale of indulgences.

The whole cleanliness thing is a bit like trading indulgences.

Martin Luther sharply criticised trading in indulgences.

He frequently stopped in Grimma and railed against the indulgence trade.

They used the sale of indulgences to take money out of the pockets of the poor.

The immediate provocation behind the act was Pope Leo X’s renewing the indulgence for the building of the new St. Peter's Basilica in 1514.

Luther heralded the beginning of the Western Church with his theses against the selling of indulgences.

I preach against the sale of indulgences!

The institution of the Church was sinful in his eyes, having lost its representative claim because it dealt with indulgences and was licentious.

To take its place, we need a system of specific emissions, as there is with vehicles, where one can measure who is doing the emitting and what is being emitted, and not engage in an international trade in indulgence where people buy the right to pollute.

Within the scope of the total economic scale of the Fugger business however the sale of indulgences was an insignificant banking operation.

Or is it an indulgence, which he quickly devised with his Creator before he blessed the time?

Its 500th anniversary will be celebrated in 2017 - dated from the year in which Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses against trading in indulgences.

This creates a sale of indulgences which liberates Europeans from their obligation to lower their own emissions.

Its 500th anniversary will be celebrated in 2017 - dated from the year in which Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses against trading in indulgences.

The legend tells that on October 31, 1517, Martin Luther (*1483, +1546), a Catholic priest and Professor of Theology nailed his theses against trade in pardons (so-called “Ablasshandel”) at the door of the city of Wittenberg´s castle church.

As Frederick the Wise, Elector of Saxony, forbade the sale of indulgences in his Electorate, many believers travelled to the area under the jurisdiction of the archbishopric of Magdeburg, and to Jüterbog in particular, to buy tickets of indulgence from Tetzel.

The well-known preacher Johann Tetzel stood for the institutionalised trading in indulgences in Central Germany from 1516 as the sub-commissioner and later general sub-commissioner for the bishopric of Meissen.

As well as criticising the cardinal's pompous court, Luther denounced the selling of indulgences that was widespread in the church at that time.

These brought in a radical reform of the Church and even the Catholic Church later banned trading in indulgences and threatened those who dealt in them with ex-communication from 1570 onwards.

The movement by Martin Luther and others known as "Reformist", or Protestant, was basically a reaction against the many injustices of the Church, particularly the sale of the "Indulgences", or "Certificates of Remission" to wealthy and poor alike, supposedly to spare them from years of hell and purgatory.

But how can we go walking, and simultaneously get involved in trading indulgences with climate certificates?

From this it can only follow that the sale of indulgences, practised as usury before the gates of Wittenberg on Brandenburg territory anno 1517, would enrage Luther.