Martin Luther: The Preservation of the Church, 1532–1546
Overview
The third volume of Brecht’s magnificent biography describes the final fourteen years of Luther’s life, beginning with the accession of Elector John Frederick in 1532. The period is often treated briefly because some Reformation developments continued without him, his Catholic opponents paid only partial attention to him, his personality displayed great tensions, and his judgment, errors. Yet the preservation of the church—those confessing the Reformation gospel being identical, according to Luther, with the true church—dominated Luther’s concerns. A work of immense and engaging scholarship, gracefully translated by James Schaaf, this volume offers comprehensive and original interpretations of Luther’s private life, his congregation and the church in Saxony, his professorial lectures and theological controversies, Bible translation, Luther and the council of Trent, and his later writings about the Jews and Turks. With 34 illustrations.
- Title: Martin Luther: The Preservation of the Church, 1532–1546
- Author: Martin Brecht
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Print Publication Date: 1999
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Luther, Martin, 1483-1546; Reformers › Germany--Biography
- ISBNs: 0800627040, 0800628152, 9780800627041, 9780800628154
- Resource ID: LLS:MRTNLTH15321546
- Resource Type: text.monograph.biography
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