Almost 500 years have passed since Martin Luther wrote his Ninety-five Theses and launched the Protestant Reformation. Shot on location at key Reformation sites throughout Europe and featuring more ...
To The Reader’s Forum: As we mark the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation with Martin Luther’s posting of the 95 issues he had with his Roman Catholic church, my question ...
‟By the creation of this united church, we shall establish a religio-political body to which no government will dare say: ‘No.’ ” This was the opinion of a leading advocate of church union in Canada ...
What to call the movement of Christians that broke full communion with the Catholic Church? In the English-speaking world, the “Reformation” has been the common term. Even many Catholics use it, ...
On Oct. 31, 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses, a list of propositions aimed at problems in the Roman Catholic Church, to the door of the university church in Wittenberg, Germany. He wanted to ...
The theological differences that led to the Protestant Reformation 500 years ago have dwindled since in both the United States and Western Europe. That's the finding of a Pew Research Center survey ...
Five hundred years ago this past week, a German monk in the town of Wittenberg posted controversial material on his town’s version of social media — the door of one of the local churches. Actually, ...
The concept of the Reformation as a discrete event, with a beginning and an end, is a relatively belated development. For ...
A half century millenium ago today, Martin Luther irrevocably changed the Western world. From a column by Archbishop Charles Chaput comes this passage from Catholic historian Brad Gregory’s recent ...
The idea that Protestants work harder and build stronger economies than Catholics is more than 100 years old. First proposed by German sociologist Max Weber, the "Protestant work ethic" has been ...