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(0)Scott H Hendrix
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxi, 341 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The sixteenth-century German friar whose public conflict with the medieval Roman Church triggered the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther was neither an unblemished saint nor a single-minded religious zealot according to this provocative new biography by Scott Hendrix. The author presents Luther as a man of his time: a highly educated scholar and teacher and a gifted yet flawed human being driven by an optimistic yet ultimately unrealized vision...
Author
Series
Very short introductions volume 252
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xvi, 126 pages : illustrations, map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Luther's transformational idea of justification by faith alone was often misunderstood and misrepresented in the early years of the Reformation. In 1520, with his Wittenberg congregation in mind, Luther set out to clarify the biblical foundation of good works. In doing so he recast the very definitions of 'sacred' and 'secular' both for his own generation and ours. Treatise on good works is the second of an occasional series of guides to key Reformation...
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xix, 338 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An anthology that includes writings by the magisterial reformers (Luther, Melanchthon, Calvin, etc.) along with lesser-known names (Frith, Capito, Vermigli, etc.) to provide a unique insight into Protestant spirituality as it developed from the earliest days of the Reformation."--BOOK JACKET.