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 ...
If you're a Protestant, the anniversary of the revolution Martin Luther set in motion 500 years ago this Tuesday is a big deal. But even if you're not, it should be. The Reformation was one of the ...
From Aug. 7 to Dec. 22, the University Libraries’ Special Collections is displaying “Print and Propoganda in the Reformation,” an exhibit on the Protestant Reformation housed in the UA Main Library.
It is an age of apocalyptic visions. Since that fateful evening of November 9, 2016, the American imperium has been forced to live with its own, deformed mirror image sitting on the throne, savage ...
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 ...
The 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, a signal event in the history of Western civilization, will be marked on Oct. 31, 2017. A year-long commemoration began on Oct. 31, 2016, spawning ...
THAT ardent Protestant before Protestantism, Saint Francis of Assisi, standing humbly before the great Pope Innocent, defended his wandering brothers, preaching without license, bringing souls to God ...
One of U.S. Protestantism’s doughtiest champions—and one of its sharpest critics —is the owner-editor of the nondenominational Christian Century. For 38 years Dr. Charles Clayton Morrison’s Protestant ...
The idea that Protestants work harder and build stronger economies than Catholics is more than 100 years old. First proposed by German sociologist Max Weber, the "Protestant work ethic" has been ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. If you’re a Protestant, the anniversary of ...