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 ...
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 ...
The rapidly fragmenting American body politic might relearn the wisdom of the near-saintly Erasmus, Luther’s sparring partner. As the Christian world today commemorates the 500th anniversary of Martin ...
In October of 1517 Martin Luther penned his famous and church-shaking 95 Theses in Wittenberg, Germany. By October 31st the list was complete and a copy was delivered to archbishop Albert of Mainz, or ...
In 1517, Martin Luther challenged the orthodoxies of medieval Europe with a quiet but significant act of frustration: he drew up a list of objections to the prevailing theological order, nailed it to ...