Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses
What led Martin Luther to write the Ninety-Five Theses? This article looks at their history and explains their content and relevance for today.
What led Martin Luther to write the Ninety-Five Theses? This article looks at their history and explains their content and relevance for today.
The publication of the ninety-five theses is known as the beginning of the Reformation. What led Luther to write them? This article sketches his life and the context that led to the writing of the ninety-five theses.
This article addresses five commonly mentioned things about Martin Luther that are actually myths: he was a simple monk, he personally nailed the Ninety-Five Theses to a door in Wittenberg, he said, "Here I stand," he was the first to translate the Bible into German, and he said something about planting a tree.
This article assesses evangelicalism and finds much practices in common with the medieval church. The author pleads for a reprioritization of Martin Luther's first of his Ninety-Five Theses, that the entire life of believers should be one of repentance.