Martin Luther: The Preservation of the Church 1532-1546 - Hardcover

Brecht, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0800627040 ISBN 13: 9780800627041

Publisher: Fortress Press, 1993

Synopsis

The third volume of Brecht's magnificent biography describes the final fourteen years of Luther's life, beginning with the accession of Elector John Frederick in 1532. The period is often treated briefly because some Reformation developments continued without him, his Catholic opponents paid only partial attention to him, his personality displayed great tensions, and his judgment, errors. Yet the preservation of the church---those confessing the Reformation gospel being identical, according to Luther, with the true church---dominated Luther's concerns.

A work of immense and engaging scholarship, gracefully translated by James Schaaf, this volume offers comprehensive and original interpretations of Luther's private life, his congregation and the church in Saxony, his professorial lectures and theological controversies, Bible translations, Luther and the Council of Trent, and his later writings about the Jews and Turks. Includes thirty-four illustrations.

About this title

About the Author:

Martin Brecht, leading Luther scholar, is Professor of Reformation and Modern Church History at the University of Munster, Westphalia, Germany.

Review:

"The exacting scholarship and balanced judgment of this biography will help ensure its place as the definitive work of its kind well into the next century." -- ---Denis R. Janz, Loyola University

About this edition

• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0800627040
• ISBN 13: 9780800627041
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 544