(RNS) — Despite all the hype during the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, the spiritual father of Baptists, Huldrych Zwingli, it turns out, is far more important to modern Christianity than Martin ...

“Ah God! If only Adam had eaten a pear!” So wrote the young Swiss Priest Ulrich Zwingli in the margin of a copy of St. Augustine’s City of God. It was the half-quizzical, wholly anguished cry of a man ...

Next year the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's promulgation of his Ninety-Five Theses will provide more than the usual temptations for abusing historical memory. Luther sites in the former East ...

At Marburg, the last hope of a united Protestantism ran aground on the Last Supper. Martin Luther’s mind was unshakably fixed as he sat in the great hall of the medieval castle in Marburg, Germany, on ...

Founded in 1899, The Journal of Theological Studies crosses the entire range of theological research, scholarship and interpretation. Ancient and modern texts, inscriptions, and documents that have ...

A few weeks ago Martin Marty, the religious historian, argued in a Religion News Service column that Calvin deserves mention along with Luther during this “Reformation Jubilee Year” of 2017. And, sure ...