{"id":47536,"date":"2017-10-30T16:20:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T20:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=47536"},"modified":"2017-10-31T18:43:53","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T22:43:53","slug":"event-to-mark-milestone-of-protestant-reformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/10\/event-to-mark-milestone-of-protestant-reformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Event to mark milestone of Protestant Reformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been 500 years since Martin Luther famously nailed his <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ninety-Five Theses<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the door of the All Saints\u2019 Church in Wittenberg, Germany on Oct. 31 \u2014 an event regarded as the start of the Protestant Reformation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brock\u2019s Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (MARS) and Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary will mark the occasion with a joint event on Wednesday, Nov. 1 at the seminary, located on the northeast corner of the Brock campus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event, held at the seminary from 3 to 4:30 p.m, will include a tour of the rare book collection, which contains volumes dating back to the early 16<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> century. Works by prominent theologians such as Martin Luther, Johann Arndt, Christian Scriver and Wilhelm Loehe are included in the collection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOur centre is pleased to commemorate in a small way the 500th anniversary of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ninety-Five Theses<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d said Professor Ernesto Virgulti, Director of MARS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brock History Professor Michael Dreidger, who teaches a course on Reformation history, and Concordia&#8217;s Historical Theology Professor John Stephenson will be speaking at the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn all, this is a very unique experience for MARS and history students,\u201d says Virgulti.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All are welcome to attend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary is an affiliated graduate college of Brock University. The library is open to all Brock University students.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>500 years after Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany, an event this week on the Brock campus will mark the anniversary of what is regarded as the start of the Protestant Reformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":47601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,1,4],"tags":[130,178,5925],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47536"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47603,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47536\/revisions\/47603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}