On October 31, 1517, German scholar Martin Luther is said to have nailed his argument against the Catholic Church's sale of better treatment after death to a church door in Wittenberg.

Noted church historian Martin Marty begins a conversation on the great 16th-century religious figure Martin Luther with what he jokingly calls “breaking news that won’t make it onto television ...

Luther was thus drummed out of the Catholic church on those grounds. Martin is constrained by the same general strictures, though his writing sets down no explicit challenge to church teachings.

On Oct. 31, 1517, an obscure German professor of theology named Martin Luther launched an attack on the Roman Catholic Church by nailing his 95 Theses to the door of Wittenberg’s Castle Church ...

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the battle of Hattin, an opponent of Martin Luther being made a ...

So is the church door on the Palace Church in Wittenberg, where Luther nailed his 95 Theses, documenting unethical practices in the Catholic Church. Paradoxically, Luther country has seen tourist ...

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 ...

On this day 500 years ago, an obscure Saxon monk launched a protest movement against the Catholic Church that would transform Europe. Martin Luther's Protestant Reformation changed not just the ...

The church of St. Mary in Wittenberg, also known as “Stadtkirche,” is famous not only for its pulpit from where Luther and fellow reformer, Johannes Bugenhagen, preached for many years in the ...

Martin Luther was born to Hans and Margaretta Luther, their first-born son, Nov. 10, 1480. Baptized the next day, on the feast of St. Martin of Tours, the infant was named for the former fourth ...