In October 1517, some five hundred years ago, Martin Luther defiantly nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the church at Wittenberg Castle church and, in the process, gave birth to the ...

Of all the ways Protestants tried to attract converts, one of the most effective was embedding missionaries in indigenous ...

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, ...

Recently the world marked the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. In the U.S. and Europe, churches dedicated entire services and sermon series to the subject, tracing their theological ...

The 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s infamous “95 Theses” has given occasion for a myriad books and reflections on what has popularly come to be called the Protestant Reformation. Amid the deluge ...

Editor’s Note: Alec Ryrie is the author of “Protestants: The Faith That Made the Modern World” and professor of Christian history at Durham University in England. If you’re a Protestant, the ...

On October 31 in Lund, Sweden, Pope Francis will take part in a commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation—a year before the official anniversary in 2017. That a pope would ...

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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 ...

The Western world has not known quite what to do with the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. The powerful Protestant establishments that would have once celebrated the quincentenary ...