Many standard histories of Christianity chronicle the Reformation as a single, momentous period in the history of the Church. According to those accounts, a number of competing groups of reformers ...

Megan Searles pretends to nail 95 theses to a door as Martin Luther for Halloween. (Megan Searles) Martin Luther nailed his 95 disputation theses to the door of the Catholic church on Oct. 31, 1517, ...

As traditions clashed during the Reformation, history became hotly disputed territory. Two perennial theological questions—”What must I do to be saved?” and “Where can I find the true church?”—took on ...

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 ...

Jarrett Carty received funding from Fonds québecois de recherche sur la societé et la culture (FQRSC). Project title: Luther et la réforme politique. Funding period: 2011-2014. Concordia University ...

Four hundred and forty-nine years ago, on October 31, hammer blows fell on the door of the castle church at Wittenberg. These blows echoed quickly on the wings of the wind throughout all the Christian ...