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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you're a Protestant, the anniversary of the revolution Martin Luther set in motion 500 years ago this Tuesday is a big deal. But even if you're not, it should be. The Reformation was one of the ...

From Aug. 7 to Dec. 22, the University Libraries’ Special Collections is displaying “Print and Propoganda in the Reformation,” an exhibit on the Protestant Reformation housed in the UA Main Library.

Five-hundred years ago, a monk named Martin Luther wrote his 95 Theses and—while he likely didn’t nail it to the Wittenberg Castle Church door, as legend has it—his words launched the Protestant ...

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, ...

This story appears in the Reformation turns 500 feature series. View the full series. A woodcut from a 1568 Protestant pamphlet shows Martin Luther and other Protestants withstand attacks from the ...

Pope Francis arrived in Sweden on Monday for services marking the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation that split Lutherans and Catholics. He arrived in the southern city of Malmo, and is ...

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 ...

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 ...

1450: Johannes Gutenberg invents the movable type printing process, providing the technology that later enables Martin Luther to spread his ideas through a mass medium. Oct. 31, 1517: Martin Luther ...