Ninety-Five Theses
Americanplural noun
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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 ● Oct. 27, 2017
So, let's for a moment imagine again that there had been no Ninety-Five Theses, no Reformation, no Protestantism.
From Nature ● Oct. 24, 2017
It had been three and a half years since Martin Luther, an unknown Augustinian monk and professor of theology, nailed a copy of his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2014
Two years later Luther, not fathoming as yet the depths of iniquity which he was beginning to lay bare, published his Ninety-Five Theses.
From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore) Dau
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