William Tyndale’s translation, published in 1526, was based on a then-radical idea: Anyone should be able to read the Bible in their own language.
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European colonial powers linked church and state. But the founders of the United States broke from that idea as surely as they broke from Britain.
Artists often turn to the supernatural to reflect on and speak to the anxieties brought about by social, religious and political upheaval.
Today’s Christian nationalists have shaped their theology in ways that harken to apocalyptic prophets of the1530s.
The German peasants were among the first to try to unlock the revolutionary potential of Reformation teachings to fight social and economic injustice.
Pope Gregory XIII was patron of Rome’s renaissance, and a legal luminary whose influence transcends the ages.
Churches’ struggles to respond to the plague and constant warfare in the 14th and 15th centuries helped shape the kinds of Christianity in the world today.
Trump recently suggested that a vote for Biden would hurt God. Religion scholars explain what, in Christian theology, it would take to injure the creator.
The idea of organized satanic witchcraft was invented in 15th-century Europe by church and state authorities, who at first had a hard time convincing regular folks it was real.
On Oct. 31, 1517, a German monk, Martin Luther, started the Protestant Reformation. Its impact went far beyond the split in the Church that most people are familiar with.
In the mid-16th century, William Baldwin wrote a satire on Catholicism but waited a decade before publishing it. Sensible man.
Different cultural groups respond with numerous, often conflicting, answers to questions about life after death. An expert explains the Christian idea of heaven.
In the early 1900s, a group of Protestants in the US attempted a reunion of Christianity. They failed, of course, but they prompted a new dialogue.
Martin Luther’s Reformation resulted in Henry VIII making law changes which are still having an effect on today’s Brexit negotiations.
In the great reformer’s eyes, if you didn’t love a rousing tune you deserved only “the music of the pigs”.
Greed, guilt, fear, anger and love gave power to a spiritual movement that was catalysed 500 years ago this week.
Just what are we celebrating when we imagine an Augustinian friar nailing a document to a church door?
University degrees perform the same function in 2017 as indulgences did in 1517.
Martin Luther has always given the country a chance to examine itself. Half a millennium on, the picture is more complex than ever.
On the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, two scholars explain how Luther’s personal and spiritual life contributed to his success.
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Professor of History, Missouri University of Science and Technology
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Director of the Reformation Studies Institute, University of St Andrews
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Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History, University of Birmingham
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Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology, University of Warwick
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Professor Emeritus, University of Oregon
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Professor of English Literature, University of Sheffield
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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Professor, University of Washington
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Professor in History, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of History, University of Warwick
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Associate Professor of Intellectual Heritage, Temple University
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Lecturer in English Literature, 1350-1660, University of Sussex
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, The University of Western Australia
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Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross