Martin Luther : renegade and prophet

Summary: "Examining the inner life of Martin Luther, the founding leader of the Reformation, the author reveals a literary genius who was full of contradictions and whose Ninety-Five Theses began the greatest upheaval and transformation of Christianity in history"--NoveList.

Record details

ISBN: 0812996194
ISBN: 9780812996197
Physical Description: xxxiii, 540 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Random House, [2017]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Mansfeld and mining -- The scholar -- The monastery -- Wittenberg -- Journeys and disputations -- The Leipzig debate -- The freedom of a christian -- The Diet of Worms -- In the Wartburg -- Karlstadt and the christian city of Wittenberg -- The Black Bear Inn -- The Peasants' War -- Marriage and the flesh -- Breakdown -- Augsburg -- Consolidation -- Friends and enemies -- Hatreds -- The charioteer of Israel.