Alec Ryrie is a professor of the history of Christianity at Durham University and author of Protestants: The Faith that Made the Modern World.
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Alec Ryrie
Luther's protest, 1517, (1909). Martin Luther nailing his theses to the door of Wittenberg Church. Engraving taken from the Harmsworth History of the World. (London, 1909). (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)