Martin Luther, a Catholic monk, did something 500 years ago that changed the world. The Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church had split in 1054 A.D. over the authority of the pope, but ...

Oct. 31, 2017, marks 500 years since Martin Luther famously rebeled against the Catholic Church with his 95 theses. Visitors to Germany can see where the Reformation began, and much more, in Luther ...

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 ...

Brad S. Gregory is the Dorothy G. Griffin Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Notre Dame. He is author of The Unintended Reformation and, most recently, Rebel in the Ranks: ...

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 ...

Senior Religion + Ethics Editor, Director of the Global Religion Journalism Initiative It was over 500 years ago, on Oct. 31, 1517, that a German monk, Martin Luther, initiated a split in the Roman ...

ANDERSON, S.C. — Reformation Day is Tuesday and it marks the anniversary of Martin Luther's written critique of the Catholic church, including its selling of indulgences. As the story goes, Luther ...

Five hundred years ago, in the winter of 1524-1525, bands of peasants roamed the German countryside seeking recruits. It was ...

Peter Marshall receives funding from The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The story we tell of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation 500 years ago is a window on how ...

Rick Steves traces the events of the Protestant Reformation where they happened Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther kicked off the Protestant Reformation, which contributed to the birth of our ...