The concept of the Reformation as a discrete event, with a beginning and an end, is a relatively belated development. For ...

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 ...

From the Great Papal Schism and the Reformation to Vatican Council II and its significance in history, this course explores the events, people, and themes that shaped the Church from the 1300s to the ...

What was the matter with the Protestant Reformation? It might seem like a strange question. Some might say that there was nothing the matter with the Reformation, that it was the acme of spiritual ...

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 ...

Four faculty and staff at EMU are interviewed in a documentary about the Protestant Reformation, This Changed Everything: 500 Years of Reformation. The documentary, released in September, is a ...

For four and a half centuries world history has felt the influence of the Reformation. Today that influence is more potent than ever, and it is growing. This seemingly preposterous statement can be ...

Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran leaders in England united to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, pledging to work for a deeper unity between the divided denominations. "We recall, with ...

According to National Today, Martin Luther was aggrieved by the activities of the Catholic Church. Luther is believed to have disagreed with certain teachings of the Church, such as the priest acting ...

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 ...

Five hundred years ago, an unknown monk named Martin Luther marched up to the church in Wittenberg, a small town in what is now Germany, and nailed a list of criticisms of the Catholic church to its ...