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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

How Martin Luther Started a Religious Revolution. Five hundred years ago, a humble German friar challenged the Catholic church, sparked the Reformation, and plunged Europe into centuries of ...

Martin Luther, an Augustine monk, denounces wrongs within the church - above all the selling of indulgences. He claims that no one shall stand between God and the faithful – least of all the ...