Making of Martin Luther

Zusatztext "Brilliant." -Melanie McDonagh! The Spectator Informationen zum Autor Richard Rex is professor of Reformation history at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Queens' College. His books include Tudors: The Illustrated History and Henry VIII and the English Reformation . Klappentext The Making of Martin Luther takes a provocative look at the intellectual emergence of one of the most original and influential minds of the sixteenth century. Richard Rex traces how, in a concentrated burst of creative energy in the few years surrounding his excommunication by Pope Leo X in 1521, this lecturer at an obscure German university developed a startling new interpretation of the Christian faith that brought to an end the dominance of the Catholic Church in Europe. Luther's personal psychology and cultural context played their parts in the whirlwind of change he unleashed. But for the man himself, it was always about the ideas, the truth, and the Gospel. Focusing on the most intensely important years of Luther's career, Rex teases out the threads of his often paradoxical and counterintuitive ideas from the tangled thickets of his writings, explaining their significance, their interconnections, and the astonishing appeal they so rapidly developed. Yet Rex also sets these ideas firmly in the context of Luther's personal life, the cultural landscape that shaped him, and the traditions of medieval Catholic thought from which his ideas burst forth. A major new account of the most intensely creative years of Luther's career Zusammenfassung A major new account of the most intensely creative years of Luther's careerThe Making of Martin Luther takes a provocative look at the intellectual emergence of one of the most original and influential minds of the sixteenth century. Richard Rex traces how, in a concentrated burst of creative energy in the few years surrounding his excommunicat

Product details

• Authors: Richard Rex, Rex Richard
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780691196862
• ISBN: 978-0-691-19686-2
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, RELIGION / Christianity / Protestant, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious, RELIGION / History, RELIGION / Christian Theology / History, Biography: religious & spiritual, Religious and spiritual figures, Biography: religious and spiritual, c 1500 to c 1600, Protestantism & Protestant Churches, Protestantism and Protestant Churches, Early 16th century c 1500 to c 1550