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Article: Going His Way; 500 Years Later, Retracing Luther's Steps to the Reformation
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- August 2, 2009
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Wittenberg, Holy Roman Empire, 1517. A young monk marches up to
the castle church and nails a piece of parchment to the massive
wooden door. He is Martin Luther, and the parchment is his famous 95
theses, written in Latin. With this document, an open challenge to
the power and practices of the Roman Catholic Church, the brash
cleric sets off one of the greatest upheavals in human history: the
Protestant Reformation.
Wittenberg, Germany, 2009. I walk down the long, cobblestoned
Collegienstrasse to All Saints' Church, the castle church that
stands at one end of the street, eager to see the famous door on
which Luther's world-changing protest once hung. But as I approach
the elaborate iron ...