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Protestantism did not spring fully formed from the minds and mouths of the Reformers. When Martin Luther nailed his famed 95 theses to the door of Wittenberg's Schlosskirche in 1517, he was merely giving customary advance notice of the position he would defend at the weekly discussions of the city's theologians. He was at first dismayed at the chain reaction set off by his attack on the sale of indulgences; only later did he hammer out the fundamentals of what he and his followers held to be a rebirth of the true Christian church...
Brown-eyed and an Ohioan, Mrs. Lyons went to Wittenberg College in Springfield, also Ohio, and then to Simmons in Boston. That was just the beginning of her collegiate tour...
With his beliefs established, he was ready at 34 to begin his life work. In 1517 he nailed his 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg. The Theses were a protest against the corrupt Roman Catholic practice of the day, of selling "indulgences" to the living for the reduction of the purgatorial terms of the dead...
...Back in Wittenberg, the Reformation had begun. Many priests, monks and nuns were leaving the cloister and getting married. Mass was celebrated in plain clothes, and parts of it recited in German. The laity took the cup of Communion to its own lips, and it smashed the images of the saints...
...list of dates which . . . my cousin, Dr. Roland Usher of Washington University, claims are an "irreducible minimum" for one interested in European history [TiME, Aug. 7], he makes two serious omissions . . . Oct. 31, 1517, when Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the church at Wittenberg, and April 18, 1521, when Luther appeared at the Diet of Worms and made his great declaration: "Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, God help me. Amen...