The concept of the Reformation as a discrete event, with a beginning and an end, is a relatively belated development. For ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is Reformation Protestantism really relevant to the social crisis of contemporary America? One writer suggests that by 1900 “Protestantism … had ceased to protest.” Similarly, historian Henry Steele ...

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 ...

Much has been said about the present position of American Protestantism. Widely-circulated magazines are now dealing with this subject. “Can Protestantism Hold Its Own in Modern America?” is the ...

The Protestant Reformation in the 16th century is considered a pivotal event in world history. Leaders such as Martin Luther, a German Augustinian monk whose 95 theses were nailed on the door of a ...

O, be some other name! What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet … Although Juliet had other things on her mind than philosophy when she uttered these ...

A bit of historical research was making the rounds on social media recently, a monograph that compares the 21st century emergence of Bitcoin, encryption, the internet and millennials with the ...