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Ninety-five Theses

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/October 31, 2017 by Jimfbleak - talk to me?  14:17, 3 October 2017 (UTC)



The Ninety-five Theses or Disputation on the Power of Indulgences are a list of propositions for an academic disputation written in 1517 by Martin Luther that started the Reformation, a schism in the Catholic Church which profoundly changed Europe. They advance Luther's positions against what he saw as abusive practices by preachers selling plenary indulgences, certificates believed to lessen punishment incurred for sin. Luther sent the Theses enclosed with a letter to Archbishop Albert of Brandenburg, on 31 October 1517, a date now considered to be the start of the Reformation and commemorated annually as Reformation Day. Luther may have also posted the Theses on the door of All Saints' Church and other churches in Wittenberg on 31 October or in mid-November. The Theses were quickly reprinted, translated, and distributed throughout Germany and Europe. Luther's superiors had him tried for heresy, which culminated in his excommunication in 1521. In retrospect, the Theses are seen as the beginning of the Reformation even though Luther did not see the controversy as particularly important or the point where he departed from Catholic church teaching.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Peter Martyr Vermigli (8 September 2017)
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 * Promoted: 17 February 2017
 * Reasons for nomination: 500th anniversary
 * Support as nominator. JFH (talk) 02:00, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Breaking my FA exile to support this. I suggested some time ago that either this or Protestant reformation be run on this date by hook or by crook, since genuinely significant anniversaries of events of this magnitude come along so rarely (the only other anniversaries in the pipeline I can think of of equal significance are the Russian Revolution for which a suitable article is already earmarked, and the 500th anniversary of Cortés's conquest of Mexico for which a suitable article isn't), and am delighted to see that it was brought up to scratch in time. &#8209; Iridescent 17:59, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Support as being of considerable historical significance.  Ortho  rhombic, 15:42, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Support I completely agree with Iridescent. A semi-millennial is a significant milestone. Dolotta (talk) 12:33, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Support milestone. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:14, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Support: historically important event, at least in the West. Praemonitus (talk) 16:29, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Support. Needless to say support, with thanks to for getting it ready in time. SarahSV (talk) 14:42, 19 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Support given the above. Aoba47 (talk) 17:32, 27 September 2017 (UTC)