1450: Johannes Gutenberg invents the movable type printing process, providing the technology that later enables Martin Luther to spread his ideas through a mass medium. Oct. 31, 1517: Martin Luther ...

Karl Barth once remarked that the Protestant Reformation was like a blind man who was climbing the stairs of a bell tower in medieval Europe during darkness of night. During the climb, he slipped and ...

The scientific and religious revolutions that began 500 years ago were not causally related, but were both stimulated by printing, argues David Wootton. On 31 October 1517, as legend has it, renegade ...

On Sunday, about 70 million Lutherans around the world, joined by Christians of many Protestant denominations, will commemorate the Reformation. This liturgical festival, marking Martin Luther’s 16th ...

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 ...

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 ...

What to call the movement of Christians that broke full communion with the Catholic Church? In the English-speaking world, the “Reformation” has been the common term. Even many Catholics use it, ...

This story appears in the Reformation turns 500 feature series. View the full series. A woodcut from a 1568 Protestant pamphlet shows Martin Luther and other Protestants withstand attacks from the ...

A Reformation timeline Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1439 and by 1455 had published the first Bible. It is often called the most important invention of the second millennium. Over ...

Pope Benedict XVI embraces with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, left, in London’s Westminster Abbey during an evening prayer service in September 2010. (Richard Pohle/WPA Pool/Getty Images) ...