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Martin Luther : renegade and prophet
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- 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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- Baker & Taylor
Offers a biography of the founding leader of the Protestant Reformation that delves into the man's inner life, showcasing the stark contradictions that made up his personality and influenced history. - Baker & Taylor
Examining the inner life of Martin Luther, the founding leader of the Reformation, the author, one of the most respected historians at work in Britain today, reveals a literary genius who was full of contradictions and whose Ninety-Five Theses began the greatest upheaval and transformation of Christianity in history. - Random House, Inc.
From âone of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographersâ (The New Yorker), a portrait of the complicated founding father of the Protestant Reformation, whose intellectual assault on Catholicism transformed Christianity and changed the course of world history.
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âMagnificent.ââThe Wall Street Journal
âPenetrating.ââThe New York Times Book Review
âSmart, accessible, authoritative.ââHilary Mantel
On October 31, 1517, so the story goes, a shy monk named Martin Luther nailed a piece of paper to the door of the Castle Church in the university town of Wittenberg. The ideas contained in these Ninety-five Theses, which boldly challenged the Catholic Church, spread like wildfire. Within two months, they were known all over Germany. So powerful were Martin Lutherâs broadsides against papal authority that they polarized a continent and tore apart the very foundation of Western Christendom. Lutherâs ideas inspired upheavals whose consequences we live with today.
But who was the man behind the Ninety-five Theses? Lyndal Roperâs magisterial new biography goes beyond Lutherâs theology to investigate the inner life of the religious reformer who has been called âthe last medieval man and the first modern one.â Here is a full-blooded portrait of a revolutionary thinker who was, at his core, deeply flawed and full of contradictions. Luther was a brilliant writer whose biblical translations had a lasting impact on the German language. Yet he was also a strident fundamentalist whose scathing rhetorical attacks threatened to alienate those he might persuade. He had a colorful, even impish personality, and when he left the monastery to get married (âto spite the Devil,â he explained), he wooed and wed an ex-nun. But he had an ugly side too. When German peasants rose up against the nobility, Luther urged the aristocracy to slaughter them. He was a ferocious anti-Semite and a virulent misogynist, even as he argued for liberated human sexuality within marriage.
A distinguished historian of early modern Europe, Lyndal Roper looks deep inside the heart of this singularly complex figure. The force of Lutherâs personality, she argues, had enormous historical effectsâboth good and ill. By bringing us closer than ever to the man himself, she opens up a new vision of the Reformation and the world it created and draws a fully three-dimensional portrait of its founder.