Martin Luther : renegade and prophet
Record details
- ISBN: 9780812996197 (acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 0812996194 (acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 9780812996203 (ebook)
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Physical Description:
xxxiii, 540 pages 25 cm
print - Publisher: New York : Random House, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK, London, in 2016"--Title page verso. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-524) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- Mansfeld and mining -- The scholar -- The monastery -- Wittenberg -- Journeys and disputations -- The Leipzig debate -- The freedom of a Christian -- The Diet of Worms -- In the Wartburg -- Karlstadt and the Christian city of Wittenberg -- The Black Bear Inn -- The Peasants' War -- Marriage and the flesh -- Breakdown -- Augsburg -- Consolidation -- Friends and enemies -- Hatreds -- The charioteer of Israel. |
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Subject: | Lutheran Church Germany Clergy Biography Reformation Germany Biography Luther, Martin 1483-1546 |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Erlanger Branch | B L973r 2017 (Text) | 33126022243418 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
- Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2016 October #2
On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther issued his Ninety Five Theses, which began a revolt that split Western Christianity in two. Roper, the first woman to hold the Regius Chair in history at Oriel College, Oxford, chronicles the man who was both revolutionary and reactionary.. Copyright 2016 Library Journal. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2017 February #1
Roper (history, Oriel Coll.; Witch Craze) writes a voluminous and highly readable biography of Martin Luther (1483â1546) and his sweeping Reformation. Luther, the man, is unpacked in detail, beginning with his youth in a mining community. The central episodes of his life are examined, including his initial commitment to the Augustinian Order, his doubts about purchased penance, and his intense intellectual tournaments with Rome's agents and theologians. This book also considers Luther's supporters (Johann von Staupitz), his opponents (Johannes Eck), and his complicated friendships (Andreas Karlstadt). Roper not only investigates the theological struggles in Luther's life, she also considers the wider social, economic, and political landscape. Lucas Cranach's contemporaneous portraits of Luther appear regularly in the text, as do many archival pamphlets and woodcuts. Roper successfully portrays Luther the complicated reformer: a man who resisted the abuses of the Catholic Church, wielded powerful control of the blossoming printing press, and made penetrating insights. She also investigates Luther's darker shadow, most notoriously his anti-Semitism.
Copyright 2017 Library Journal.VERDICT Rich with detail, scholarly but accessible, Roper's great biography of this critical, courageous, confrontational, and controversial figure provides a perfect work for the 500th anniversary of his Ninety-Five Theses. [See Prepub Alert, 9/26/16.]âJeffrey Meyer, Mt. Pleasant P.L., IA