Martin Luther Sparked a Revolution that Transformed the Christian Faith
It’s been 497 years since Martin Luther posted his “Ninety-Five Theses” to the door of All Saints’ Church in Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany — an act that had sweeping and everlasting ramifications for the Christian faith.
Dr. William Edgar, professor of apologetics at Westminster Theological Seminary in Glenside, Pennsylvania, recently told TheBlaze about Luther’s supposedly defiant act and the transformational change it had on Western civilization and the world at large.
Luther, a priest who eventually became disenchanted with Catholic teaching, posted the document — which took aim at the church’s practice of selling indulgences to rectify individuals’ sins — on October 31, 1517, leading to his official excommunication four years later in 1521....
Dr. Steven J. Lawson | 6/23/2017
