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Martin Luther: Visionary Reformer
Professor Scott H. Hendrix
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Description for Martin Luther: Visionary Reformer
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, 25 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JB; BGX; HBJD; HBLH; HRCC9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 420.
A fresh account of the life of Martin Luther The sixteenth-century German friar whose public conflict with the medieval Roman Church triggered the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther was neither an unblemished saint nor a single-minded religious zealot according to this provocative new biography by Scott Hendrix. The author presents Luther as a man of his time: a highly educated scholar and teacher and a gifted yet flawed human being driven by an optimistic yet ultimately unrealized vision of true religion. This bold, insightful account of the life of ... Read more
A fresh account of the life of Martin Luther The sixteenth-century German friar whose public conflict with the medieval Roman Church triggered the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther was neither an unblemished saint nor a single-minded religious zealot according to this provocative new biography by Scott Hendrix. The author presents Luther as a man of his time: a highly educated scholar and teacher and a gifted yet flawed human being driven by an optimistic yet ultimately unrealized vision of true religion. This bold, insightful account of the life of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
420g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300226379
SKU
V9780300226379
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About Professor Scott H. Hendrix
Scott H. Hendrix is emeritus professor of history, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the author of numerous works on Martin Luther and the sixteenth-century Reformation. He lives in Fearrington Village, NC.
Reviews for Martin Luther: Visionary Reformer
[A] richly detailed portrait. -D.G. Hart, Wall Street Journal Hendrix has written a scholarly but vivid portrait of a man who, in a spiritual crisis, peered deep into St. Paul's words about the righteous living by faith, and thought he had found there a new purpose for himself, his friends, his country and all true Christians. -Michael Duggan, ... Read more