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HENRY A. JEFFERIES | What makes Ireland so interesting for Reformation studies is that it stands out as the classic exception

ALEC RYRIE | The philosopher Charles Taylor puts his finger on the question. “Why was it virtually impossible not to believe in God in, say,

CHRISTOPHER OCKER | It all began with propositions “for a disputation for the sake of disclosing the power of indulgences”

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