| Martin Luther the Preservation of the Church Vol 3 1532-1546 Revised Edition Contributor(s): Brecht, Martin (Author), Schaaf, James L. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0800628152 ISBN-13: 9780800628154 Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing OUR PRICE: $37.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1999 Annotation: Exacting scholarship and balanced judgement of this biography will help ensure its place as the definitive work of its kind. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - Religion | Christian Theology - General |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1.35" H x 6.18" W x 9.04" (1.87 lbs) 546 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Academic - Chronological Period - 16th Century - Cultural Region - Germany - Ethnic Orientation - German - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 churchthose confessing the Reformation gospel being identical, according to Luther, with the truechurchdominated 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. |