Martin Luther - Catholic Dissident

'A compelling biography of one of the greatest men of the modern age. Stanford is particularly brilliant on the tensions inside Luther's private and spiritual life. This is a very fine book, written with a flourish.' Melvyn Bragg The 31st of October 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther pinning his 95 'Theses' - or reform proposals - to the door of his local university church in Wittenberg. Most scholars now agree that the details of this eye-catching gesture are more legend than hammer and nails, but what is certainly true is that on this day (probably in a letter to his local Archbishop in Mainz), the Augustinian Friar and theologian issued an outspokenly blunt challenge to his own Catholic Church to reform itself from within - especially over the sale of 'indulgences' - which ultimately precipitated a huge religious and political upheaval right across Europe and divided mainstream Christianity ever after. A new, popular biography from journalist Peter Stanford, looking at Martin Luther from within his Catholic context, examining his actual aims for Catholicism as well as his enduring legacy - and where he might fit within the church today. 'Peter Stanford makes the life of Luther into a thrilling narrative, told from a modern Catholic perspective' Antonia Fraser

Product details

• Authors: Peter Stanford, Stanford Peter
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781473621671
• ISBN: 978-1-4736-2167-1
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Millennium Series; Millennium Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; History, RELIGION / General, European History, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, c 1500 onwards to present day, Biography: religious & spiritual, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Biography: religious and spiritual, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance