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.
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In this definitive study, the author accomplishes two important tasks. First, he contrasts the theological perspectives of earlier biographies with the results of more modern research into Luther's socio-economic context,...
Martin Luther: His Road to Reformation, 1483-1521
This engaging book by one of today's best-known Christian writers explores the history of heaven, from its origins in biblical writings to its most recent representations.
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The Western Church from 1050-1250 . Oxford , 1989 . Morrison , Karl F. , The Mimetic Tradition of Reform in the West . Princeton , 1982 . Understanding Conversion . Charlottesville , VA , 1992 . Muir , Edward , Civic Ritual in ...
The following are all very helpful accounts of Luther's life and thought: Martin Brecht, Martin Luther: His Road to Reformation, 1483–1521, translated by James Schaaf (Philadelphia, PA: Fortress Press, 1985); and Heiko Oberman, ...
On a similar issue, see Robert Coogan, Erasmus, Lee and the Correction of the Vulgate: The Shaking of the Foundations (Geneva: Droz, 1992). ” Reinhart Staats, “Augustins 'De spiritu et littera' in Luthers reformatorischer Erkenntnis,” ...
Luther called his experience in the Wartburg his Patmos in reference to island in the Aegean where John wrote the book ... Cf. Brecht, Martin Luther: His Road to Reformation, 1483-1521, 537. the central Reformation doctrine of grace and ...
New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1918. (The Thomas Smyth lectures for 1917–1918, ... The Lord of Glory: A Study of the Designations of Our Lord in the New Testament with Especial Reference to His Deity. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907.