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It's not always easy to find the human Martin Luther underneath the centuries of accumulated myth. A World Ablaze focuses on the drama and uncertainty of the first few critical years of Luther's rise, when his personal struggles with salvation were transformed into a crisis of Christendom.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- A Word Before
- Curtain Up: A Hebrew-Reading Knight
- Chaoter 1: Theses, Theses Everywhere
- Chapter 2: A Most Vehement Papist
- Chapter 3: To Heaven in a Bathing Cap
- Chapter 4: Not Exactly Ivory Towers
- Chapter 5: The Lion Stirs
- Chapter 6: The Rose of Gold
- Chapter 7: Cooked Goose
- Chapter 8: Wild Boar
- Chapter 9: Little Flea
- Chapter 10: Bonfire of Inanities
- Chapter 11: God Help Me
- Chapter 12: No More Hours
- Curtain Down: A New Habit
- A Word After
- Sources and Further Reading
- Illustration Credits
- Gratia
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Craig Harline is the author of numerous books on the history of Christianity, especially during the Reformation, including Conversions: Two Family Stories From the Reformation and Modern America (2011), which was a finalist for the Mark Lynton History Prize from the Columbia School of Journalism, and Sunday: A History of the First Day From Babylonia to the Super Bowl (2007), which was one of Publishers Weekly's Best Religion Books of the Year. His memoir, Way Below the Angels: The Pretty Clearly Troubled But Not Even Close to Tragic Confessions of a Real Live Mormon Missionary (2014) received Foreword Reviews' INDIEFAB Book of the Year award in the category of Religion. He is currently Professor of History at Brigham Young University, and has been a visiting professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in Belgium.
Zusammenfassung
It's not always easy to find the human Martin Luther underneath the centuries of accumulated myth. A World Ablaze focuses on the drama and uncertainty of the first few critical years of Luther's rise, when his personal struggles with salvation were transformed into a crisis of Christendom.
Zusatztext
Written in novel-like fashion, it provides an engaging overview of the facts, as currently believed, on the early Reformation...Recommended.
