A great metaphysical drama played out on the world’s stage. So, here's a proposition: The novel was an art form—the art form—of the modern Protestant West, and as the main strength of established ...

DURHAM, N.C. – Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther is said to have nailed his 95 theses to the door of Wittenberg, Germany’s Castle Church, ushering in a revolt against the Roman Catholic Church.

NEW YORK — As the Catholic Church struggled to recover from the tumultuous effects of the Protestant Reformation, art historian Elizabeth Lev believes that it was the Church’s embrace of art that ...

St. Boniface, who lived on the bridge between the 7th and 8th centuries, is honored as the “Apostle of Germany” because of his work in Christianizing the pagans of those lands. St. Peter Canisius ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Religious rivals of the Protestant reformation, murderous royal patrons and other 15th-16th century power brokers are brought to life in a new London art show telling the tale of ...

Extracted from: Missiology (Pasadena) 8 (4) October 1980, pages 489-493. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full ...

Father Michael Martin, the Catholic chaplain at Duke University leads a group of Catholic students in prayer before Carlo Dolci’s artwork at the Nasher Museum. (Credit: Yonat Shimron/RNS.) Listen ...

DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — His meticulous paintings of Christian themes, saturated with emotion and glistening with color, were everything the iconoclast reformers railed against. DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — Five ...