Martin Luther died at the age of 62 on Feb. 18 ... he decided to take on the Roman Catholic Church and the Holy Roman Empire and nailed a “list of questions and propositions for debate ...

(Martin Luther) When an obscure monk named Martin Luther nailed 95 Theses - 95 stinging rebukes - attacking the mighty Catholic Church, and its head, Pope Leo X to the door of Wittenberg Cathedral ...

In 1517, the German monk and theologian Martin Luther challenged ... to the primacy of the Catholic Church. He was excommunicated by the pope and rejected by the Holy Roman emperor Charles V ...

By the 16th century, the Protestant Reformation, led by Martin Luther, introduced new theological challenges to the Catholic Church. However, instead of improving Jewish-Christian relations ...