Ninety-Five Theses

plural noun

1. the theses of Luther against the sale of indulgences in the Roman Catholic Church, posted by him on the door of a church in Wittenberg, October 31, 1517.

Example Sentences

Eisenstein recounts the viral dissemination of Luther’s Ninety-five Theses in some detail.

From The New Yorker

The Souls had become so familiar with some of them that she had to ask only, "What did Martin Luther..." before four hands shot up in the air and four voices would shout out, "The Ninety-five Theses."

From Literature

In 1517, Martin Luther published his Ninety-five Theses, which inaugurated a massive schism in the Western church, one that he likely never intended.

From The New Yorker

In it, she calls for a sexual reformation within Christianity, modelled on the arguments of Martin Luther, the theologian who launched the Protestant Reformation by nailing ninety-five theses to a church door in Wittenberg, Germany, in the sixteenth century.

From The New Yorker

Luther did not address the issue of freedom of conscience in his Ninety-Five Theses, nor did he ever devise a political theory supporting religious pluralism.

From National Geographic