It's been 500 years since Martin Luther sparked the Protestant Reformation. Much good emerged from the movement, but it also left the church with a gaping wound that has yet to be healed.

When members of the First Presbyterian Church of Homewood arrived for services on a Sunday earlier this month, they found all the Bibles had been removed from the church pews. Pastor Nancy Jo Deder… ...

Tuesday marks the anniversary of the Reformation, which began when German monk Martin Luther denounced Roman Catholicism. Most of the concerns he raised have been resolved, but divisive issues remain.

According to the traditional narratives of Christian history, this event began what we call the “Protestant Reformation,” consistently named as one of the most important events in the history ...

In October 1517, some five hundred years ago, Martin Luther defiantly nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the church at Wittenberg Castle church and, in the process, gave birth to the ...

When Pope Francis visits Sweden Oct. 31 for the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, it will herald fresh debates on Western Christianity's greatest rift.

Their collegiality is a far cry from the deep divisions that splintered the Catholic Church half a millennia ago when Martin Luther and his 95 theses sparked the Protestant Reformation.

In this sense, the Protestant Reformation cannot be dismissed as a mere “mistake,” even if in my view it mistakenly deemed some Catholic doctrines to be unbiblical and church-dividing.

The symbol of the Protestant Reformation — Luther hammering his 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg on Oct. 31, 1517 — may not have happened.

The discussion among Protestant churches themselves is a matter wholly different from the discussion between the Protestant churches and Rome. All the Protestant churches trace their origin back ...

This model challenges the democratic structures of churches,” essentially reversing the Protestant Reformation’s centering of the individual believer working out their own salvation, and its ...

Consequences for the Reformation. English historian A. G. Dickens famously described the Reformation as an “urban event”, ...