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RICHARD REX | At some point in the second half of the twentieth century, England somewhat unexpectedly ceased to be a Protestant nation.

GORDON CAMPBELL | In countries with a Protestant majority, the Reformation is widely regarded as a positive event

MICHAEL C. LEGASPI | In the year 1600, there were only a handful of known heliocentrists.

JOEL F. HARRINGTON | In 1976, the novelist Kingsley Amis imagined a modern world in which the Protestant Reformation had never occurred

MARGINALIA REVIEW OF BOOKS | A forum on the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation.

SARAH MORTIMER | The theological revolution begun by Martin Luther in 1517 not only challenged the authority of the Catholic Church

G. SUJIN PAK | Martin Luther’s reformation was theological through and through. At its very heart were questions of theology.

LARS FISCHER | “The Reformation” is really an umbrella term that covers a whole range of partly distinct, partly overlapping reformations

BRUCE GORDON | Perhaps the most well-known aspect of the Reformation was how it made the Bible available in the languages of lay people

SAMUEL LONCAR | The Protestant Reformation, like any historical event, is a construction of memory.

DAVID LYLE JEFFREY | The extraordinary popular excitement produced by the first printed vernacular translations of the Bible...

CARL R. TRUEMAN | Does Luther matter? And if so, why? In this 500th-anniversary year of Luther’s 95 Theses against Indulgences