This first volume in Martin Brecht's three-volume biography recounts Luther's youth and young adulthood up to the period of the Diet of Worms. Brecht, in a clear, eloquent translation by James Schaaf, discusses Luther's education at the University of Erfurt, his monastic life, his canonical trial in 1519, the Leipzig debate, and his earliest contributions to the beginning of the Reformation. Illustrations enrich the text.

Martin Luther : His Road to Reformation 1483-1521

Brecht, Martin

Biographies & Memoirs

AUGSBURG FORTRESS* PUBLISHERS

Martin Luther: Shaping and Defining the Reformation, 1521-1532

Schaaf, James L.

Religion & Spirituality

Fortress Press

The third volume of Brecht's magnificent biography describes the final fourteen years of Luther's life, beginning with the accession of Elector John Frederick in 1532. The period is often treated briefly because some Reformation developments continued without him, his Catholic opponents paid only partial attention to him, his personality displayed great tensions, and his judgment, errors. Yet the preservation of the church---those confessing the Reformation gospel being identical, according to Luther, with the true church---dominated Luther's concerns. A work of immense and engaging scholarship, gracefully translated by James Schaaf, this volume offers comprehensive and original interpretations of Luther's private life, his congregation and the church in Saxony, his professorial lectures and theological controversies, Bible translations, Luther and the Council of Trent, and his later writings about the Jews and Turks. Includes thirty-four illustrations.

Martin Luther: The Preservation of the Church 1532-1546

Martin Luther, Volume 1: His Road to Reformation, 1483-1521

Paperback. Fading and discoloration to wrappers, with bumping to spine.

Martin Luther, Volume 2: Shaping and Defining the Reformation, 1521-1532

Exacting scholarship and balanced judgement of this biography will help ensure its place as the definitive work of its kind.

Martin Luther, Volume 3: The Preservation of the Church, 15321546

History

World

Martin Luther I/ III. Die vollständige Biographie.

Calwer

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