Martin Luther's assault on the Roman Catholic Church 500 years ago this week changed the map of Christianity by testing the boundaries of religious liberty and ushered in a new concept of what it ...

On Oct. 31, 1517, an outspoken university lecturer and Augustinian monk named Martin Luther posted a list of objections to the dominant Roman Catholic beliefs and practices of his time.

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 ...

Both traditions can appreciate Luther’s famous dictum as a recovery, not a discovery. Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk, famously broke with the Roman Catholic Church ...

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 ...

Martin Luther, an Augustine monk, denounces wrongs within the church ... He claims that no one shall stand between God and the faithful – least of all the Roman Catholic Church.

Erwin Iserloh, Roman Catholic professor of church history at Trier, declares that Luther merely mailed off copies of his theses to two of his ecclesiastical superiors, the Bishop of Brandenburg ...

While there remain major areas of disagreement, the Roman Catholic Church indeed, after the Second Vatican Council (which Mr. Marty covered as a journalist), adopted some of Luther’s ideas ...