This week in 1517, Martin Luther crossed the religious Rubicon when he posted his 95 theses on the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany. His action led to a schism in the Catholic Church and the ...
On Oct. 31, 1517, an Augustinian monk named Martin Luther nailed 95 theses on a church door in Wittenberg, Germany, launching the widely influential Protestant Reformation. Luther’s objections to ...
Every schoolboy thinks he knows how the Reformation began: on Oct. 31, 1517, Augustinian Friar Martin Luther took hammer in hand and nailed his list of 95 angry theses on the door of the Castle Church ...
Yahoo: Martin Luther's 95 Theses Are 500 Years Old. Here's Why They're Still Causing Controversy
Five hundred years ago, on Oct. 31, 1517, the small-town monk Martin Luther marched up to the castle church in Wittenberg and nailed his 95 Theses to the door, thus lighting the flame of the ...
Martin Luther's 95 Theses Are 500 Years Old. Here's Why They're Still Causing Controversy
As Lutherans in Milwaukee and around the world celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, they can turn to several new biographies and studies of Martin Luther, whose 95 theses challenging ...
Five hundred years ago next month, Martin Luther took the first step in what led to the breaking apart of the Christian world. Luther's 95 Theses, which he released on Oct. 31, 1517, is generally ...
What would it mean for mainline Protestants to understand and appropriate the message of Luther’s 95 Theses? For all the ballyhoo over the centuries, I have come to wonder whether the message has ever ...