In 1517, Martin Luther drafted a document known as The 95 Theses, and its publication is used to date the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. The recent 500th anniversary of that event ...

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 ...

Meanwhile, just seven years after Luther’s 95 Theses, the German Peasants’ War erupted at least in part on the basis of Luther’s arguments for propositions that, for those times, were ...

The 95 Theses were written in Latin, and kick-started the Protestant Reformation into existence (although Luther’s primary goal was to reform the Catholic Church of many abuses such as nepotism ...

As the story goes, Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door in Wittenberg, Germany, on Oct. 31, 1517. The German monk's theses helped spark the Protestant Reformation, a pivotal moment in ...

Purgatory now! Purgatory without delay! In his little book on the 95 Theses, Timothy Wengert tells of a contemporary layperson who, upon reading the 95 Theses, commented that “they aren’t very ...

Nonetheless, the theses reflect a confrontation between a personal experience of justification by faith with direct communion with Christ, on the one hand, and, on the other, an external system of ...

Like Luther, I present 95 theses or in my case, 95 faith observations drawn from my 64 years of living and practicing religion and spirituality. I trust I am not alone in recognizing these truths. For ...

This year marks 507 years since German monk Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to a church door in the German city of Wittenberg, sparking the Protestant Reformation. Today, churches across the nation ...