In his 1905 book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber famously argued that Protestant ideas had inadvertently paved the way for the rational, market-oriented ethos that ...
Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther composed his “95 Theses,” setting into motion what is now known as the Protestant Reformation, but the impact continues today, even in the Ozarks. That is the ...
Recently the world marked the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. In the U.S. and Europe, churches dedicated entire services and sermon series to the subject, tracing their theological ...
Brad S. Gregory is the Dorothy G. Griffin Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Notre Dame. He is author of The Unintended Reformation and, most recently, Rebel in the Ranks: ...
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 ...