Hendrix, Scott H.

Martin Luther visionary reformer - New Haven Yale University Press 2015 - xxi, 341p., 16 unnumbered pages of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-326) and index.

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 of ?true religion.?

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Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.

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