Presentation

Abstract

The thematic dossier presented here brings together texts that result from conferences presented at the International Congress «A Builder of Modernity: Luther – Theses – 500 years», organized in 2017 to mark the 500th anniversary of what can be considered the symbolic starting date of the 16th-century reform movement. Comprising eight articles by recognized national and international researchers, this thematic dossier aims to contribute to an in-depth reflection on different dimensions of the Reformation movement, its consequences, and its current influence on the world, and to (re)visit Luther's thought as one of the builders of modernity. Besides its religious capital, in the form of knowledge and human experience, we cannot overlook the philosophical, literary, and aesthetic values that help us understand our contemporaneity.