A new edition of Martin Luther's seminal Bible has been released to mark 500 years of the Protestant Reformation. Theologian Christoph Rösel explains how the text shaped the German language and ...

Martin Luther ignited the Reformation of the Church and impacted the German language. Now, Germany's Protestant Church plans to revise the Luther Bible, making it even closer to the reformer's ...

The oldest known translation of any part of the Bible into German — strictly, into Old High German — was done between the mid-eighth and the early ninth centuries at Mondsee Abbey, in today’s Upper ...

This is another cherished myth, that remains popular in the collected Legends and Tall Tales of the self-understanding of Protestants, and the highly embellished story of Luther’s revolt and ...

Learning in Retirement session on the Reformation 500th anniversary (News Tribune, Nov. 1, page B1) included a group leader's statement that Luther translated the Bible into German so that "people ...

One of Duane Hildebrand’s latest finds as he expands his collection of 801 Bibles is a 1787 German Bible he found at Goodwill online.On the front it says, in German, that it contains the Old and New ...

A sketch of groups of peasants wandering around the countryside during the German Peasants' War. Warwick Press via Wikimedia Commons. Five hundred years ago, in the winter of 1524-1525, bands of ...

Luther’s example inspired Christian composers to fill the church with the finest music they could create. Music flourished in German Protestant churches after the passing of Martin Luther. For the ...