Martin Luther : the Christian between God and death / Richard Marius.
Marius, Richard.
1999
BR325 .M2955 1999 (Mapit)
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Title Martin Luther : the Christian between God and death / Richard Marius.
Author Marius, Richard.
ISBN 9780674003873 (pbk. : alk. paper)
067400387X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780674550902 (alk. paper)
0674550900 (alk. paper)
Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999.
Language English
Description xv, 542 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number BR325 .M2955 1999
Dewey Decimal Classification 284.1/092
B
Summary 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 break-through," the German peasantry in 1525, Muntzer'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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ch. 1. Luther's Europe
ch. 2. Early years
ch. 3. Flight to the monastery
ch. 4. Years of silence
ch. 5. Rome and Wittenberg
ch. 6. Lectures on the Psalms
ch. 7. Lectures on Romans, Galatians, and Hebrews
ch. 8. Controversy over indulgences
ch. 9. Preparing for battle
ch. 10. Beyond Heidelberg
ch. 11. Leipzig debate
ch. 12. Discovery of the gospel
ch. 13. Plunge into the unknown
ch. 14. Breaking point
ch. 15. Freedom of a Christian
ch. 16. Progress to Worms
ch. 17. Exile in Patmos
ch. 18. Back to Wittenberg
ch. 19. Tribulation
ch. 20. September Testament
ch. 21. Authority of princes
ch. 22. On the Jews
ch. 23. Worship and ethics
ch. 24. Opposition and divisions
ch. 25. Peasants' Rebellion
ch. 26. Marriage
ch. 27. Attack on Erasmus.

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