Martin Luther the man who rediscovered God and changed the world
On All Hallow's Eve in 1517, a young monk named Martin Luther posted a document he hoped would spark an academic debate, but that instead ignited a conflagration that would forever destroy the world he knew. Five hundred years after Luther's Ninety-five Theses appeared, Eric Metaxas paints...
| Main Author: | Metaxas, Eric (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : pastor, rebel, prophet, monk
- Beyond the myths
- Lightning strikes
- The great change
- A monk at Wittenberg
- The "cloaca" experience
- The theses are posted
- The diet at Augsburg
- The Leipzig debate
- The bull against Luther
- The diet of worms
- An enemy of the Empire
- The Wartburg
- The revolution is near
- Luther returns
- Monsters, nuns, and martyrs
- Fanaticism and violence
- Love and marriage
- Erasmus, controversy, music
- The plague and Anfechtungen return
- The Reformation comes of age
- Confronting death
- "We are beggars. This is true"
- Epilogue : the man who created the future
- Appendix : Frederick's dream.