Martin Luther : renegade and prophet

Summary: "Examining the inner life of Martin Luther, the founding leader of the Reformation, the author reveals a literary genius who was full of contradictions and whose Ninety-Five Theses began the greatest upheaval and transformation of Christianity in history"--NoveList.

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ISBN: 9780812996197 (acid-free paper)
ISBN: 0812996194 (acid-free paper)
ISBN: 9780812996203 (ebook)
Physical Description: xxxiii, 540 pages 25 cm
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Publisher: New York : Random House, [2017]
Copyright: ©2016

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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.