Martin Luther: A Penguin Life (Penguin Lives)
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ISBN: 0670032727 / Publisher: Viking Adult, February 2004
Reassesses the life of Martin Luther, describing his seminal role in the Reformation, his religious beliefs, his conflict with Church leaders, and his lasting influence on world history and religion.
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Martin Luther explores the records left by Luther of his inner struggles and his conflicts with the papacy, the Holy Roman Empire, leaders of the emergent Protestant movements, and, in the greatest stains on his reputation, peasants in their uprising and Jews. This is also a portrait of a man of conscience and courage who risked death to witness to his beliefs and whose arguments drew fellow believers who together created changes that altered the destiny of Christendom, the shape of Christianity, and the rise of new freedoms in church and state.
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