Whatever you’ve seen in the movies and pictures, Martin Luther probably didn’t nail his “95 Theses” onto a church door in Wittenberg.
What he certainly did on Oct. 31, 1517, was put the document in the mail, and the rest is history. His theses — the tentative first salvos in what became a broad challenge to Catholic teaching, authority and practice — ignited the Protestant Reformation, which split Western Christianity and created the Lutheran and myriad other denominations.
Read Full Article »