The Life of Luther
Title | The Life of Luther PDF eBook |
Author | Barnas Sears |
Publisher | |
Pages | 608 |
Release | 1849 |
Genre | Reformation |
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Martin Luther
Title | Martin Luther PDF eBook |
Author | Volker Leppin |
Publisher | Baker Academic |
Pages | 149 |
Release | 2017-10-17 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 149341092X |
This brief, insightful biography of Martin Luther strips away the myths surrounding the Reformer to offer a more nuanced account of his life and ministry. Coinciding with the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, this accessible yet robustly historical and theological work highlights the medieval background of Luther's life in contrast to contemporary legends. Internationally respected church historian Volker Leppin explores the Catholic roots of Lutheran thought and locates Luther's life in the unfolding history of 16th-century Europe. Foreword by Timothy J. Wengert.
Luther on the Christian Life
Title | Luther on the Christian Life PDF eBook |
Author | Carl R. Trueman |
Publisher | Crossway |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2015-02-28 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1433525100 |
Martin Luther’s historical significance can hardly be overstated. Known as the father of the Protestant Reformation, no single figure has had a greater impact on Western Christianity except perhaps Augustine. In Luther on the Christian Life, historian Carl Trueman introduces readers to the lively Reformer, taking them on a tour of his historical context, theological system, and approach to the Christian life. Whether exploring Luther’s theology of protest, ever-present sense of humor, or misunderstood view of sanctification, this addition to Crossway’s Theologians on the Christian Life series highlights the ways in which Luther’s eventful life shaped his understanding of what it means to be a Christian. Ultimately, this book will help modern readers go deeper in their spiritual walk by learning from one of the great teachers of the faith. Part of the Theologians on the Christian Life series.
The Life and Times of Martin Luther
Title | The Life and Times of Martin Luther PDF eBook |
Author | William Carlos Martyn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 556 |
Release | 1866 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Life and Times of Martin Luther
Title | The Life and Times of Martin Luther PDF eBook |
Author | J Merle D'Aubigne |
Publisher | Moody Publishers |
Pages | 636 |
Release | 1978-01-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0802492762 |
Written in the 1840’s, this book was long recognized as the finest biography of Martin Luther available. As well as containing remarkable insights into the man, Martin Luther, this volume also presents a survey of the ecclesiastical, political, and social events leading up to the Reformation, the atmosphere in which it took place, and the part played by men like Luther. The Life and Times of Martin Luther is a masterly portrayal of the motives, beliefs, and actions of one of the men God used to break the chains of Rome in the sixteenth century. His words and life still speak to us today.
Luther's lives
Title | Luther's lives PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Vandiver |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 421 |
Release | 2010-10-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 152612064X |
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This volume brings together two important contemporary accounts of the life of Martin Luther in a confrontation that had been postponed for more than four hundred and fifty years. The first of these is written after Luther’s death, when it was rumoured that demons had seized the Reformer on his deathbed and dragged him off to Hell. In response to these rumours, Luther’s friend and colleague, Philip Melanchthon wrote and published a brief encomium of the Reformer in 1548. A completely new translation of this text appears in this book. It was in response to Melanchthon’s work that Johannes Cochlaeus completed and published his own monumental life of Luther in 1549, which is translated and made available in English for the first time in this volume. Such is the detail and importance of Cochlaeus’s life of Luther that for an eyewitness account of the Reformation – and the beginnings of the Catholic Counter-Reformation – there is simply no other historical document to compare.
Here I Stand
Title | Here I Stand PDF eBook |
Author | Roland Herbert Bainton |
Publisher | Hendrickson Publishers |
Pages | 465 |
Release | 2015-03 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1619706040 |
With sound historical scholarship and penetrating insight, Roland Bainton examines Luther's widespread influence. He re-creates the spiritual setting of the sixteenth century, showing Luther's place within it and influence upon it. Richly illustrated with more than 100 woodcuts and engravings from Luther's own time, Here I Stand dramatically brings to life Martin Luther, the great Reformer. A specialist in Reformation history, Roland H. Bainton was for forty-two years Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale, and he continued his writing well into his twenty years of retirement. Bainton wore his scholarship lightly and had a lively, readable style. His most popular book was Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther (1950), which sold more than a million copies. Hendrickson Classic Biographies feature enduring stories about real people whose lives have been touched and transformed by God, and who in turn have touched others with God's love. Each story has been carefully selected, gently edited if necessary, and freshly typeset, making every account--be it ancient or contemporary--a compelling read. Great lives reaching across the ages to touch lives today, encouraging, challenging, and inspiring.