Martin Luther : The Christian between God and Death / Richard Marius.
Marius, Richard, author.
2022
BR325 .M2955 1999
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Title Martin Luther : The Christian between God and Death / Richard Marius.
Author Marius, Richard, author.
ISBN 9780674040618
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674040618
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©2000
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (576 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674040618 doi
Call Number BR325 .M2955 1999
Dewey Decimal Classification 284.1/092
Summary Few figures in history have defined their time as dramatically as Martin Luther. And few books have captured the spirit of such a figure as truly as this robust and eloquent life of Luther. A highly regarded historian and biographer and a gifted novelist and playwright, Richard Marius gives us a dazzling portrait of the German reformer--his inner compulsions, his struggle with himself and his God, the gestation of his theology, his relations with contemporaries, and his responses to opponents. Focusing in particular on the productive years 1516-1525, Marius' detailed account of Luther's writings yields a rich picture of the development of Luther's thought on the great questions that came to define the Reformation. Marius follows Luther from his birth in Saxony in 1483, during the reign of Frederick III, through his schooling in Erfurt, his flight to an Augustinian monastery and ordination to the outbreak of his revolt against Rome in 1517, the Wittenberg years, his progress to Worms, his exile in the Wartburg, and his triumphant return to Wittenberg. Throughout, Marius pauses to acquaint us with pertinent issues: the question of authority in the church, the theology of penance, the timing of Luther's "Reformation breakthrough," the German peasantry in 1525, Müntzer's revolutionaries, the whys and hows of Luther's attack on Erasmus. In this personal, occasionally irreverent, always humane reconstruction, Luther emerges as a skeptic who hated skepticism and whose titanic wrestling with the dilemma of the desire for faith and the omnipresence of doubt and fear became an augury for the development of the modern religious consciousness of the West. In all of this, he also represents tragedy, with the goodness of his works overmatched by their calamitous effects on religion and society.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Illustrations
Preface
1 Luther's Europe
2 The early years
3 The flight to the monastery
4 Years of silence
5 Rome and Wittenberg
6 The lectures on the psalms
7 The lectures on Romans, Galatians, and Hebrews
8 The controversy over indulgences
9 Preparing for battle
10 Beyond Heidelberg
11 The Leipzig debate
12 The discovery of the gospel
13 The plunge into the unknown
14 The breaking point
15 The freedom of a christian
16 The progress to worms
17 Exile in Patmos
18 Back to Wittenberg
19 Tribulation
20 The September testament
21 The authority of princes
22 On the Jews
23 Worship and ethics
24 Opposition and divisions
25 The peasants' rebellion
26 Marriage
27 The attack on Erasmus
28 Epilogue
Notes
Index

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