but most people do not know the connection between the two Baptist ministers from the American South and the medieval German monk whose name they bear. As an adult, Martin Luther King Sr., ...

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The clash between German cleric Martin Luther and Pope Leo X is the central drama in the 16th Century religious revolution known as the Reformation. Luther's stand against what he saw as Catholic ...

The German monk's theses helped spark the Protestant Reformation, a pivotal moment in Christianity's history. Who was Martin Luther? A lawyer, monk, priest and professor, Luther (1483-1546 ...

The cartoon depicts Martin Luther King Jr. with exaggerated facial features saying, "I have a dream that my four children will one day loot stores in Chicago and call it reparations." "It's ...

That scene, which comes from “Martin Luther: Rebel in an Age of Upheaval” (Oxford), by the German historian Heinz Schilling, seems to me impossible to improve upon as a portrait of what it ...

But his works had another, more hidden effect: the development and proliferation of a unifying German language. Martin Luther was born in 1483 in Eisleben and grew up in Mansfeld, in what is part ...

Senior Religion + Ethics Editor, Director of the Global Religion Journalism Initiative It was over 500 years ago, on Oct. 31, 1517, that a German monk, Martin Luther, initiated a split in the ...

On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther ... Cranach the Elder, Luther’s close friend and tireless propagandist. (The Morgan focusses on the moment of the theses.) The German Renaissance master ...

He begins with the story of how Martin Luther created the modern German language, through his translation of the Bible. Luther is often, in German history, seen as the Great Divider. His attacks ...